Fatso Video Views

General Goods

Keyboard Cat is an Internet meme. It consists of footage from 1984 of Fatso , a cat owned by Charlie Schmidt of Spokane, Washington, wearing a blue shirt (belonging to Schmidt's son Cody, who was a baby at the time) and playing an upbeat rhythm on an electronic keyboard. In reality, Fatso (who lived until 1987[1]) was manipulated by Schmidt. The video of Fatso was posted to YouTube under the title charlie schmidt's cool cats in June 2007.

We judge that Fatso is New Zealand's top DVD rental company, as illustrated by excellent customer loyalty and excellent site design. In fact, in 2008, they merged with their two competitors (DVD Unlimited and Movieshack) to form one large DVD rental company--now the only major one in all New Zealand. Fatso have an impressive inventory of over 25,000 films (all Region 4 compatible)--perhaps a dozen times that of a typical video store. In April 2007 they were the first New Zealand company to stock High definition Blu-ray titles, and now have an impressive 1,000+ titles.

Fatso has the most detailed and extensive title information for its films of any DVD rental site we've seen (and that's saying something, as we've reviewed the Australian, US, UK, Irish, Canadian, and Indian markets). Each film entry lists stars and director (all hyperlinked so you can see their other films), length, classification, genre, video/screen format, subtitles, sound, and even a list of the DVD's special features, as well as trailers and links to the official movie site when available. There are also expert reviews from well-known New Zealand critics like Steven Gray and Aaron Yap as well as member ratings and comments.

To aid browsing, there are a generous 22 genres (we've seen sites with as few as 7, so this is an big plus). There are various movie collections like Award Winners, Most Popular, Highest Rated, etc. As an extra, you can suspend your account for up to two months, say if you're going on a vacation or will be away on business. There are other extras, like the ability to purchase gift subscriptions and even Fatso t-shirts, and we hear there are more website development projects on the way this year. Fatso used to do limited video game rentals, but have ceased that option.