I found out that TiVo at long last supports exclusions in keyword searches, but I can't make it work. Supposedly if you preface the keyword with a thumbs-up (or thumbs-down, either will work) it puts a minus sign in front of the keyword and makes it an exclusion word rather than a required word. This doesn't seem to work for me, no minus sign appears.
I just got off the phone with TiVo's technical support (took about 40 seconds to get through the menus, had to wait another 15 seconds before talking to a real person!) and the exclusion keyword thing
does work. I was just doing it wrong. Surprisingly for TiVo, the proper way to do it was unintuitive, at least to me. You
don't use the thumbs button while you're entering the key word. You enter the keyword, then instead of selecting the "Done" button, you right-arrow out of it which takes you to the screen that lets you add another key word and has the dialog about how you can make the keyword an exclusion rather than inclusion. At that point you can arrow down and highlight the keyword you just put in, and
then you can use the thumbs button on the remote to make it an exclusion. This is a feature that TiVo has needed for years, and if it's been there all this time and I just didn't know about it.... aaarrrggh!
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