Video Sleeves: Then and Now (part two)

It has been a few months since we last looked at the ever-changing face of video artwork, so seeing as it's October, lets do a full horror entry. Some of these are subtle, while some are downright appalling. I guess the art department has to justify their salaries too, but I just wish they could have been a bit more creative in what they do.

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Video Sleeves - Then and Now (part one)

While I was going through some older reviews and updating them with more hi-res art work, I was saddened to see how some of these excellent covers had been altered or outright ditched in the progression from analogue to digital. I figure there could be many reasons for this - rights may have lapsed for artwork commissioned for certain regions, for example - but a lot of the time I feel it boils down to distributors having to justify having an art department. It can only account for some of the lazy and downright shoddy cash-grabs made by some of these guys.

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