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Marking a specific show with 3 Thumbs-Downs won't cause TiVo to skip it in a wish list?


Correct. Tivo has three categories of recordings:

- Individual shows or series you specifically told it to record.
- Wish list items.
- Tivo suggestions (thing it records all by itself without being ordered to).

Wish lists are in the format of "I want it to always record shows with this actor", or "...director", or "...genre", or "...<keywords>", etc. The thumbs up/down feature only affects the Tivo suggestions, not wish lists.

I agree, this didn't seem to make sense to me at first, until I understood the above. For example, I had a wish-list to record the genre "Science Fiction", but it kept filling the hard disk with Anime, despite my having thumbs-downed every Anime program and thumbs-upped every live action sci-fi program possible.

After removing the wish list, now it seems to know that I like live-action sci fi but not Anime, and puts those shows correctly into the suggestions.

Anyway, I think Doug's work-around is very clever. If I ever run into that situation, I'll remember it.
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Tony Fabris