Redbox and Verizon’s Netflix video streaming competitor will be priced at $8 per month for the standard tier, the same price that Netflix charges for its service, according to an announcement from the partner companies. Additional service tiers will also be offered, and the service will be integrated with the physical Redbox kiosks scattered through grocery, drug, and convenience stores.

Redbox and Verizon announced their intent to partner on a streaming service back in July, when Redbox Instant entered private alpha testing. Streaming was a natural extension for Redbox, a company we can thank for taking the messy and stressful social interaction component out of the DVD rental process.

In addition to the streaming service, Redbox Instant’s $8 per month plan will include credits for four one-night rentals from Redbox kiosks. A $9 per month plan will let customers use those credits toward four nights of Blu-ray disc rentals, and a $6 per month plan will get customers streaming only with no disc credits. According to Forbes, Redbox Instant already has commitments for content from the pay TV network EPIX, as well as from Paramount, Lionsgate, and MGM. Redbox Instant will also sell digital and video-on-demand versions of newer content not yet available for streaming.

We noted in July that this union between a content provider and a service provider could face scrutiny from the government, as Comcast did first for slowing Netflix, and then for its Xfinity TV streaming service that gets a “separate service flow” from the rest of Comcast’s traffic.

Release dates are still scant and the service’s homepage still betrays precious little information, but interested parties can provide Redbox and Verizon with their e-mail addresses to stay posted.