As was the case elsewhere in the world, a new range of sleeve designs accompanied the 1992 German release of the 'digitally remastered' editions.
Although the German sleeves featured key-art that often differed from the US/UK/AU counterparts, the sleeves were similar, in most aspects, to the remastered-edition sleeves issued in other non English-language territories such as France and the Benelux countries.
The sleeves were of a thin gloss-paper stock which lowered the quality-bar that had been established with earlier German video releases; but this was the natural outcome of mass-production for the 'consumer market' where affordable retail price-points meant cheaper production costs and, therefore, compromises to quality of manufacture and presentation.
Although the German sleeves featured key-art that often differed from the US/UK/AU counterparts, the sleeves were similar, in most aspects, to the remastered-edition sleeves issued in other non English-language territories such as France and the Benelux countries.
The sleeves were of a thin gloss-paper stock which lowered the quality-bar that had been established with earlier German video releases; but this was the natural outcome of mass-production for the 'consumer market' where affordable retail price-points meant cheaper production costs and, therefore, compromises to quality of manufacture and presentation.
