There's grey on both sides of the picture,i've tried to reset the reciever and it still looks the same,how do I fix it?

My first week with the HR20 was flawless, but now it is having all sorts of recording issues. My wife has a season pass for General Hospital on ABC and it worked great for a week, then it started recording nothing but a grey screen.AFter numerous reboots, the grey screen disappeared, but then it wou

Installed a new receiver-R22- and picture is squeezed with a grey bar about an inch on each side of the picture.  How do I fix this to get a full picture?

For the last two days everything that I have recorded on my DVR has shown up as just a grey screen.It shows that the full time was recorded and i can fast forward through it,but it shows nothing but a grey screen.Please help ASAP need to rectify this immediately. Thank you for any assistance in this

WE just bought a vizio 37in 370m tv. Hooked it up upstairs and beautiful pic but we have about a 2in grey line top and bottom of screen. We have whole home and the hddvr is down stairs, hd reciever up stairs.

i have a few channels that i know i get in my guide that are grey (instead of white).  i can tune to them ok, but the UI gets kinda wonky cuz my eye skips over those channels.  I think this has something to do with re-authorizing the receivers - and i did that - but it hasn't fixed it.  what can i d

I had a problem with my genie mini and it worked for a long time. Then one day it suddenly stops working now it shows a grey screen. I can do anything but watch shows. I can use guide, menu, etc. But when I go to a channel it is just grey. The device I have is a c41-700. Ive tried resetting, the red

Why does all the sports on ESPN show up with those annoying grey bars that say HD on both sides? I am getting dolby digtal and appears to be high def picture but in a 4:3 format. What's up?

Show was playing live, but recorded nothing but a grey screen. This only happened on FOX (5/18/10; 8:00 - 10:00pmEST), not on ABC which was recording at the same time.  This has never happened before.  Any explanation?

For months my DVR has stopped functioning at times and showed the Red X Grey 8 message. I searched online and found solutions to reboot the DVR. I did that for several occasions, and the DVR began working again. I also made use of the Disaster Recovery feature. Tonight, the message will NOT go away.

I am able to use my ROKU or DVD player...but my cable does not work? My wifi is working fine. My TV has a LARGE GREY GEAR in the center.

As of Friday, 10/25/19, every time I pull up the channel guide, a grey box appears, pointing to the top channel on the list with three choices - "Select" for On Demand Programs, "Info" for Cannel list view, and "play/pause" for Tune Channel.  I can't see the program listed behind the box, and can't

I just networked my HR20 and blue ray devices. My connection is as follows. Linksys WRT54G wireless router set up as a normal hub (will refer to this as the hub below). That is connected to the HR20 and blue ray device. The router is connected to the Cisco WET610N bridge. The bridge is connected via

I was watching an HD program and all of a sudden everything went grey with no sound. I've tried restarting the system, it gives me the "powering up" and then it flashes for a second and then tries to restart itself but it never really boots up. I'm stuck with no tv now. Is there something I can do t

For whatever reason, and only on my upstairs television, if I go from a standard HD channel to the 4k channel the screen is grey static with crackling sound. If I unplug the HDMI cord from the wall then plug it back in it comes back. Then, when I am done with 4k and go back to standard HD the same t

When I turn my TV on and bring it to the correct input, all I am seeing is three grey dots of slightly different shades. I have tried to restart the DVR, unplug the router and neither have worked. How do I fix this?

So I had Directv installed on the evening of 08-11-11 have 2 standard boxes, 1 hd box and 1 HD DVR. After watching tv for about 3 hours on my HD DVR I get a message on the screen saying "if I'd like to upgrade the software" or "do it later?" so I choose to update now. After the receiver restarted it