Hi Jonas, the only thing you can do to repair economically is to buy a cheap dvd recorder & swap over the dvd engine (its easy) & can be done at home & cost is about £20-£30, its literally plug & play. I have successfully done this on a dvdr1000 & dvdr980, the 880 & 890 use the same dvd engine as its called (vae8020) is the same as used by quite a few manufacturers i.e. some later Philips models,Thomson, Daewoo, Mico & Yamaha to name just a few.
Allan, December 2007
