Page 1 of Phillips DVD player rejecting R1 for no reason, help!!!

im asking for a solution on behalf of a friend, she has a phillips dvd player that has always played everything thrown at it, but tonight for no apparant reason has rejected R1 "ER Season 2"!

plays every other R1 discs...

any suggestions anyone? please? :)

A number of Region 1 discs have extra protection on them called RCE. This is designed to stop them playing on "hacked" DVD players like your friend`s Philips. Sometimes a map of the world appears when you try to play the disc, along with a message that your player may have been modified. If this is the case, you can usually get around the RCE protection by changing your DVD player`s region setting from 0 (or All) to 1. With most Philips players, there is a way to do this, but there is another problem. If you change your machine`s region code from 0 to 1, you will only be able to play Region 1 discs until you change it back again. While this isn`t that much of a problem (it only takes a few presses of the remote control) some of the Philips models only allow a limited number of changes before they become locked for good. Obviously you don`t want that to happen!
There is another way, if you or a friend has a PC with a DVD writer. There is some DVD backup software that can make a copy of your original disc with all the region protection removed. The copy can then be played on any DVD player, even a region-locked one, as long as it can read writable DVDs. (Philips player should be able to.) Since it`s just one disc you`re having problems with, this might be an easier solution.

thanks for reply...disc in question isn`t RCE, and player still plays all others R1`s!