Why Xtra-vision pulled down shutters

The Xtra-vision brand name is retreating online and into the dispensing machine business

Xtra Vision closed it's doors this week Picture: Fergal Phillips
Paul McGowan, chief executive of Xtra-vision parent Hilco, with actor John C Reilly at the Galway Film Fleadh last July Picture: Andrew Downes

The Xtra-vision store in Skerries, Co Dublin, a long-time teenage hangout and source of part-time work, shut its doors after three decades last week.

Within 48 hours, a high-tech Xtra-vision-branded DVD dispensing machine appeared ...