Yesterday, Verizon made news with its plans for a streaming media service for 2012. And today, TechCrunch reports that Verizon has partnered with Redbox, which currently lets you rent DVDs by kiosk.
According to TechCrunch, Verizon and Redbox plan to launch a television and movie streaming and download service at the end of May 2012. The service wil let you watch movies and television via the Web and would not be a television broadcast service. An interesting note in TechCrunch's report is that the Verizon and Redbox service could include DVD rentals as well.
From TechCrunch:
The service is called Project Zoetrope internally, and will be a subscription, streaming, and downloading service for TV and movies that will be available on a broad variety of platforms: they plan support for iOS, Android, Google TV, Xbox, Roku and other streaming boxes, and browsers. “Set-top boxes,” by which they mean more traditional digital cable boxes, are not supported; this is an internet service, not a broadcast service.
As we reported yesterday, Verizon plans to make the streaming service available to about 85 million households, outside its FiOs market, which currently serves some 5 million TV subscribers, according to Reuters.
Previously:
Verizon plans a standalone streaming service much like Netflix
Verizon And RedBox Planning Major Partnership For Early 2012 Launch [TechCrunch]
—Maggie Shader
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