• by Wayne Friedman , December 8, 2011

That much talked about Verizon streaming movie/TV service looking to compete with Netflix has a supposed partner: None other than Redbox, the kiosk DVD rental company -- this, according to TechCrunch.

The Verizon/Redbox service, according to reports, will launch a TV and movie streaming business in the middle of next year selling various subscription packages starting at $6 a month. Some of those packages will include DVD rentals at Redbox locations.

If reports are true Redbox would be following in the footsteps of Netflix which started out renting physical DVDs to consumers and then moved to also offering a streaming movie/TV service.