Universal Studios Home Entertainment has announced that it will start giving the high-definition treatment to its award-winnning medical series
House on Blu-ray with the release of
House: Season Six, which is scheduled for August 31. This season set will include all 21 episodes in five BD50 discs.
At the moment the studio has not revealed any plans to go back and rerelease previous
House seasons on Blu-ray as well.
Update
Special features include:
- U-Control - A Beginner's Guide to Diagnostic Medicine: multi-disc picture-in-picture feature
- Commentaries on the following episodes:
- "Broken", with director/executive producer Katie Jacobs, writer/executive producer Russel Friend & writer/executive producer Garrett Lerner
- "5-to-9", with series star Lisa Edelstein and writer/executive producer Thomas L. Moran
- "Wilson", with series star Robert Sean Leonard and writer/supervising producer David Foster, M.D.
- Featurettes:
- Before "Broken": featuring Hugh Laurie and shot on location with no script and no plan, experience House's emotional journey at Mayfield Psychiatric Hospital from an all-new up close and intimate perspective as originally envisioned by director/executive producer Katie Jacobs in a never-before-seen original short.
- A Different POV - Hugh Laurie Directs: Hugh Laurie does double duty as Dr. House and director of the episode "Lockdown."
- New Faces in a New House: a discussion about the challenges and opportunities that are presented when a show must hire more than 30 new actors to perform pivotal roles in an extremely important episode.
- A New House for House: An in-depth feature highlighting the amazing Mayfield hospital set from the two-hour season premiere episode, "Broken."
Crazy Cool Episode – Epic Fail: features amazing visual effects from the episode "Epic Fail." (BD-exclusive)
- BD-Live
- My Scenes
- Pocket Blu