{"id":46224,"date":"2014-11-04T13:49:06","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T20:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/04\/batman-in-color-comes-to-disc.html"},"modified":"2015-05-08T12:47:34","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T18:47:34","slug":"batman-in-color-comes-to-disc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/04\/batman-in-color-comes-to-disc.html","title":{"rendered":"BATMAN (In Color!) comes to disc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On DVD and Blu-Ray.  I&#39;m not sure if this is going on my Christmas list, but reading the story about the tangle web of conflicting rights that kept this show out of consumers hands (legit copies, anyway) is pretty darned interesting.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+WIRED<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The wait is over. Next week, &quot;Batman&quot; hits retail in all its kitsch-laden glory just in time for the holidays.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/wrd.cm\/1x3E3jp'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/ygZEcqdwtQs2hxdOBgK3oRa-ufl52fosaHZRjWLeex1-0v7C3FuJR3qWLBPZ3Io5SYoBiU-myzNTUmAoiHccpXJ0zGYfQNxRtWCeyoaESXW0PMU=w506-h303' border='0' \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/wrd.cm\/1x3E3jp'>Why We&#8217;re Just Now Getting the 1960s Batman TV Show on DVD | WIRED<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/etpvyeuu3ad'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On DVD and Blu-Ray. I&#39;m not sure if this is going on my Christmas list, but reading the story about the tangle web of conflicting rights that kept this show out of consumers hands (legit copies, anyway) is pretty darned interesting. Originally shared by +WIRED: The wait is over. Next week, &quot;Batman&quot; hits retail in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/04\/batman-in-color-comes-to-disc.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BATMAN (In Color!) comes to disc&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,852,79,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-dc-cinematic-univese","category-media-intellectual-property","category-media-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135023,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/09\/batman-animated-series-coming-blu-ray.html","url_meta":{"origin":46224,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;Batman: The Animated Series&#8221; is coming to Blu-Ray","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 9-Oct-17 3:55pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Welp, that's going on the Christmas list ... in 2018. 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