Universal Studios Home Entertainment has revealed the final specs for the Blu-ray release of '
Heroes: Season 3', which is due to hit store shelves on September 1, day-and-date with the DVD. As with previous seasons of the series, video will be 1.78:1 1080p accompanied
by a DTS-HD Master Audio track. The season will come in five BD50 discs, and will be rich in special features, some of them exclusive to the BD release.
Detailed extras are as follows:
- U-Control (BD exclusive):
- Picture-in-picture cast & crew commentaries
- Hero connections: biographies and character profiles
- Audio commentaries
- Deleted scenes
- Alternate stories:
- Heroes: Going Postal webisodes
- Nowhere Man webisodes
- Pinehearst commercial
- Heroes: The Recruit webisodes (BD exclusive)
- The Superpowers of Heroes: Stunt Coordinator Tim Gilbert gives insight to designing the hard hitting stunts of 'Heroes'
- Completing the Scene: An overall look at the visual style of 'Heroes: Season 3
- The Prop Box: Introduction to the "Gold Room" where all of the props used for 'Heroes' are stored. Relics from the first season to the present are shown and the methods of a prop master are revealed
- Tim Sale Gallery of Screen Art
- Genetics of a Scene: An ongoing service in which the episode's director and cast give an in-depth look at the production process:
- Exploring Claire's Mind: This segment reveals the graphic scene of the 'Heroes Season 3' opener
- Speedster Steals the Formula: Allan Arkush highlights directing the Speedsters' speed effects and the time-stopping qualities of Hiro
- Throwing Thoughts: A quick look at the shooting style used to create a specific scene from Episode 322
- Lights, Camera, Beeman: This segment features George Beeman working on set; fun on-set footage is used to demonstrate the sometimes-frantic shooting schedule of 'Heroes'
- The Writers' Forum: Creator Tim Kring and selected writers/producers discuss the story-lines of Season 3, outlining inspirations for character developments, story plots and the changes that took place along the way
- Building Coyote Sands: a segment revealing the complete building and shooting of the Coyote Sands Internment camp featured in Episode 321 "1961" (BD exclusive)
- Season Four Sneak Peek (BD exclusive)
- BD-Live (BD exclusive)