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My two year old upconverting Toshiba DVD/divx player from Woot.com wouldn’t eject my rented DVD (I am Legend). I would push eject and it would say “Open”, do nothing, and after a few seconds say “Loading” and play the DVD again. Once the harassing blockbuster calls started coming in I decided to try and fix it.
I found a great site called Fixya, which is similar to this site but focuses on hardware.
This page addressed a similar problem with the Toshiba SD-4990. That page linked to a service manual here (https://www.vancebaldwin.com/shop/research_new/TBA/SD4900.pdf ) which was similar enough to be extremely helpful.
Some suggested that it was a software issue and unplugging the machine for half an hour to let reset it self. However, after unplugging it all night the problem remained the next morning.
I took the machine apart (6 screws on the outside) and unmounted the drive (4 more screws), unplugging the three cables and remembering their orientation (blue wire faces the back). I unscrewed the top chasis (2 screws underneath soft rubber & glue) and got the DVD out. Then after some finagling I found the eject levers on the bottom (long slide switches) that opened up the DVD tray. I massaged the tray back and forth, and did the same with the laser mechanism on its track. The tray belt was in tact and there were no loose solder joints or wires. So I plugged the drive back in loosely (without reassembly) and plugged the power back in. Carefully, without touching any capacitors I hit the eject button and the drive tray started working again. It must have just been jammed. I unplugged the power, reassembled everything, turned it back on, and it’s back to normal!
This may not be the problem your SD-K850 or other DVD player was having, but perhaps these steps will help you solve your problem.

Great for when you don’t have any CD cases but have access to a recycle bin.

http://www.athensmusician.net/archive/2005-02-13_oragamicdholder.php

Here’s a tutorial on how to fix venetian blinds with their own parts. It involves shortening them.

My cats like to look out the window, blinds be damned. They’ve crawled through and destroyed most of the blinds in my apartment.

I went to home depot and asked if they sold the individual plastic pieces to fix blinds, and they didn’t. I would have had to buy full new blinds, but using this method didn’t have to buy anything. Otherwise I’d be out of most of my apartment security deposit.

You’ll need: scissors and something pokey.

There are two plastic pegs on the bottom of the bottom bar. Pull those out.

Inside is the knot that stops the pull string from being pulled through. Cut it off.

Unthread the pull cords from the bottom bar and bottom blinds up to the last blind that’s broken. Slide out the broken blinds.

Now you have a gap where the blinds used to be. But my blinds were too long for my window - actually most of them were in my apartment.

Grab some of the extra full ones from the bottom. If your blinds aren’t too long, decide if you’re ok with shortening them a little. Also, check around and see if your apartment has any other ‘donor’ blinds that are the same size that you could use.

Now just slide the donor blinds into the missing spots.

Slide the bottom bar into the lowest unused rung of the laddars. Now, this is the only remotely hard part: Thread the pull cord back through the blinds and into the bottom bar. The pokey comes in handy for this.

Then, cut off the excess bottom ladder below the bottom bar.

Tie a knot in each of the pull cords inside the bottom bar. Try and make them even with each other, keeping in mind that when you yank on them you pull each drawstring at the top up. Cut off the excess pull cord, stuff the excess cord back into the bar and plug the holes back up with the pegs.

Ta daaaaaaaaaa!

Now the blinds are probably actually the right size too. Remember to clean them too while you’re at it! :)