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WishList w/Multiple Keywords
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Posted by: TomParsons

When I set up a wishlist, I specify one or more keywords to look for. For example, I set up a wishlist with keywords "flying, aviation, airplane, plane, pilot". Turns out that Tivo never finds any matching programs. Tivo apparently ANDs the keywords together, instead of ORing them (like a Web search would). I think it would be better if Tivo would OR the keywords together when doing program searches using keywords.

Posted by: shabadoo25

According to what I have read, if you put quote marks around something it looks for that exact description. Leave the quote marks out and it will check the words individually.

Posted by: LifeIsABeach

Yes, TiVo does an "and". The only way to do an "or" is to create a different Wishlist for each word seperately. A pain, but it should work.

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Posted by: TomParsons

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by LifeIsABeach:
Yes, TiVo does an "and". The only way to do an "or" is to create a different Wishlist for each word seperately. A pain, but it should work.
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I'm now doing it this way. I'm getting some good matches, but also some duds. For example, one of my keywords is "pilot", because I'm looking for programs about people "pilot"-ing airplanes. Of course, this WishList also catches series pilots of a bunch of crummy sitcoms and such.
As I type this, I realize that simply ORing the keywords wouldn't give me the result I'm after. Things would just work out like the above silly example. It really needs to be like a Web search, where programs are ranked or scored according to how well they match my multiple keywords. Maybe I'd get to set a minimum score for matching programs to make it onto the list.

Posted by: trainman

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by TomParsons:
For example, one of my keywords is "pilot", because I'm looking for programs about people "pilot"-ing airplanes. Of course, this WishList also catches series pilots of a bunch of crummy sitcoms and such.</font>

Could be worse...you could, like me, have wish lists for "train" and "trains." If only there were some way to tell TiVo that I only want it to find programs that have descriptions where those words are used as nouns, not as verbs. http://www.avsforum.com/ubbtivo/smile.gif

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Posted by: shabadoo25

I have a keyword search under "model." (OK, I'm shallow.) I'm constantly deleting recordings for model airplanes, trains and the like. It's a small price to pay for such a great feature.