The French MGM "Édition collector" 2 DVD set from 2001 also has the introduction text and time and place burnt-ins removed. And we also missed the voice-over on them. It was all replaced by subtitles. It's the same discs in Belgium, only the packaging was different.
And then, for the Ultimate Edition in 2005, they changed the master, so the texts were back in and the voices, too (except for the one on "Los Angeles, 1984. 1h52").