After 28 years of serving Vancouver’s most discerning film buffs, Videomatica will close its doors this summer. In a May 5 news release, co-owner Graham X Peat blamed the tremendous surge in ...

Videomatica has struck a tentative deal to preserve its collection of 35,000 classic and cult films, and that treasure trove of cinematography could end up on university library shelves after the ...

Believe it or not, there is life after Netflix. As DVD rental stores across the city shuttered this past summer, the announcement of the forthcoming closure of Videomatica was one that particularly ...

We independently select everything we recommend. Buying through us may earn us a commission, which supports our work. The Videomatica sales department is going across 4th Avenue and up the block to ...

Nearly every week, I see newspapers and magazines that seemed fine suddenly going out of business. Or a private equity fund buying up a chain of newspapers that had been serving communities for ...

We independently select everything we recommend. Buying through us may earn us a commission, which supports our work. The DVD and video collection from Vancouver’s Videomatica, valued at $1.7 million, ...

I heard about Videomatica before I even lived here. Artsy in-the-know types were gushing about it during a 2002 visit – back before video-on-demand and iTunes and illegal downloads. I don't live ...

Videomatica, Vancouver’s iconic video-rental store, will not hold a clearance sale to liquidate its 30,000-film inventory in the lead-up to its closure this summer. Processing costs and suggestive ...

VANCOUVER -- Graham Peat vividly remembers his first customer, a friend he cajoled into coming down to his new video store, Videomatica. He only had to recruit customers once, because word soon got ...

Business news this month includes a receivership, a store’s closure and an acquisition that all underscore quality content’s enduring value as media platforms and delivery methods evolve. Brian ...

Videomatica – a beloved Vancouver video rental store that closed last year – is donating most of its 28,000 DVDs, 4,000 VHS titles and 900 Blu-rays to the University of British Columbia. Meanwhile, ...