Video Ezy was an Australian home video rental business that offered titles on VHS, DVD, Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray, as well as console video games, for rent. At its peak in the mid-2000s, Video Ezy had over 500 company-owned and franchised video rental shops in the country, and owned 40% of the Australian video rental market after taking over Blockbuster's Australian operations. The company also expanded internationally into New Zealand and Asia. In the late 2000s and 2010s the company saw significant store closures, and by 2020 the brand consisted solely of automated rental kiosks operating within Australia. In March 2021 Evolve Entertainment, the company managing Video Ezy's rental kiosks, entered liquidation. As with most video rental chains, the once dominant business's fall is attributed largely to the introduction of online streaming services. History Video Ezy commenced trading in 1983, when Kevin Slater opened his first store in the Sydney suburb of Hurstville, renting out a small selection of VHS and Betamax format movies. In September 1984, Peter McLaughlin and Bill Coe opened the first franchised store at Miranda. Other stores to open in quick succession were in the Sydney suburbs of Bankstown, Liverpool and Chatswood. In the majority of these stores, Slater funded 50% of the capital required to open. By 1986, Video Ezy comprised 18 stores, and by August 1987, there were 34 stores located across New South Wales and Queensland. Expansion followed throughout other Australian states. By 1990, the brand had grown to 102 stores, and over 300 by 1996. In that same year the Malaysian Berjaya Group made a major investment in the company, obtaining a 60 percent stake in the business, with Video Ezy Chairman Robert Maidment owning the other 40 percent of the company. During that time Video Ezy was made a subsidiary of CarLovers, an Australian car wash business also owned by Berjaya. Berjaya Group eventually divested its stake in the company in 2002 for AUD$12.5 million, selling it to Australian private equity firm CHAMP Ventures. In May 2000, the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) charged Video Ezy with unlawfully increasing the rental price of new release movies in its corporate-owned stores in anticipation of the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax later that year. It was the first case of GST price exploitation to be investigated by the commission, and the company faced possible fines of up to AUD$10