About the same time, the store came to the attention of Don Newton,  who was operating one of B.C.'s first video stores on Robson Street in downtown Vancouver, who watched as the store acquired an  impressive collection of movies. In 1992, Newton purchased Video Stop from Paul Norton, and shortly  afterwards, changed the name of the store to Limelight Video.

At that time, the video business had changed dramatically, with large  chain stores driving out the small independent stores. It was recognized that in order to survive in the increasingly competitive business that we had to continue to specialize, to find a niche in the market, to create a video store that was unlike any of the chain  stores.

We continue to purchase foreign and independent films, but over the years we have built up a diverse stock of documentaries, historical films, war films, musicals and music films, Academy Award winners, spiritual films, stand-up comedy, films about art and artists, travel films, science fiction and horror films, and many more. In addition, we have grouped together world-famous directors, such as Alfred Hitchcock, Francois Truffaut, Akira Kurosawa, Federico Fellini, Werner Herzog, and some lesser known directors from all over the globe. We have also acquired films from almost every film-producing country in the world, countries often represented at film festivals, but  rarely seen in video stores - from South-East Asia, the Middle East, Australia and New Zealand, Russia, the British Isles, India, South Africa, India, and many other countries. And we have almost every Canadian film ever released on video.

We invite you to come in and browse - we have over 25,000 titles from  which to choose.