The State of Television

[Left Turn]

I think my television watching has gone from a 3 or 4 hours daily routine to about 1 hour over the past few years.  Of course, there's always DVDs of the good ol' days if you're happier with television of the past.

Not all old shows are on dvds. The Wonder Years isn't.  Back before the days of dvds they didn't acquire the digital performance rights to any copyrighted music they used on tv shows. The Wonder Years had multiple copyrighted songs on each of 115 episodes. The cost of acquiring the digital performance rights to all these songs is prohibitive. I've heard rumours they may release dvds of The Wonder Years with new music, but It wouldn't be the same.

[fullhouseforever]

No, I wasn't trying to imply you could get DVDs of all the past shows.  If it's been popular, it will at some point make it to home use.  A lot of shows commonly found on syndication probably already are available, so if there something like that available, I know I would eventually shift my focus to something like that to have it to keep.

[MT Fan]

My guess is you can find at least some episodes of The Wonder Years online. If you can with Full House I'm sure it's possible.