I've had a little chat with my Tivo. It is now quite clear on what will happen to it should it decide to record any World Cup related footage, what so ever.

How do you do that? It is ieasy to persuade TiVo to include programming based on filter parameters, but I've never been able to make it exclude certain things.

For example, if I were a big fan of auto racing, I could set up a wish list to record any program about auto racing... but I would not be able to tell it to record all auto racing except NASCAR.

Similarly, how to you tell your TiVo not to record World Cup soccer, but still record other soccer games?

tanstaafl.