{"id":1801,"date":"2015-12-22T14:58:15","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T12:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=1801"},"modified":"2015-12-22T14:58:15","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T12:58:15","slug":"child-44-dvd-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2015\/12\/22\/child-44-dvd-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Child 44 (DVD): Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Film<\/h3>\n<p>A disgraced member of the military police is investigating a series of murders in the Soviet Union, during the Stalin era. Going against party norms to find the truth.<\/p>\n<p>A compelling drama, and now available to view in the home. While the story is not of the type the might lend itself to repeat viewings, especially within a short period of time, this is still a compelling story.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2015\/05\/10\/child-44-review\/\" target=\"_blank\">Child 44 Review<\/a> by SAMDB here.<\/p>\n<h3>Disc And Bonus Features<\/h3>\n<p>Child 44 is available now to purchase on disc in South Africa.<\/p>\n<h6>Video<\/h6>\n<p>The disc is encoded at a high bitrate, so those viewers with the necessary hardware or software can scale up to a larger or higher resolution screen. There are no visible artefacts on screen, and the image is crisp, as far as DVD quality goes.<\/p>\n<h6>Audio<\/h6>\n<p>The soundtrack is presented in either a 5.1 or a 2.0 mix. The genre of the film however does not lend itself to excessive use of the surround channels, so these serve merely to enhance some scenes, further expanding the on-screen action.<\/p>\n<h6>Navigation<\/h6>\n<p>Navigation is very basic, yet functional, with a mix of static imagary and some scene clips as backgroun.<\/p>\n<h6>Bonus<\/h6>\n<p>There are unfortunately no bonus features on the disc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Film A disgraced member of the military police is investigating a series of murders in the Soviet Union, during the Stalin era. Going against party norms to find the truth. A compelling drama, and now available to view in the home. While the story is not of the type the might lend itself to repeat&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2015\/12\/22\/child-44-dvd-review\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Child 44 (DVD): Review<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dvd-blu-ray","category-review","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}