House is engineered for television, not big screen projection. And it has no time of money for serious effects. Also, it's mostly shot in situations with very c

House is engineered for television, not big screen projection. And it has no time of money for serious effects. Also, it's mostly shot in situations with very controlled lighting. Add all that up and it means there's a lot that they can get away with. It's great that they did. But that was very recently, and again, the original question was 'why didn't this happen a decade ago?'.