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"Watch out, Netflix. Redbox Instant by Verizon on Wednesday began letting people register for an access code to use the streaming service.\nFor $8 a month, Redbox Instant will offer unlimited streaming of movies plus four DVD credits. A promotion on the service's website says the first month will be free. Users can upgrade to Blu-ray for $1 more. \nThe Redbox Instant Twitter account announced the open invites Wednesday via this tweet, linking to a Home Alone photo:\n\nToday is the day! We're *gradually* rolling out access to redboxinstant.com. Get on the wait list &amp; get excited! twitpic.com/bnclp7\n\u2014 Redbox Instant (@redboxinstant) December 19, 2012\n\nUsers will be able to stream movies on computers, tablets, smartphones and TVs. The Redbox Instant by Verizon app is now available for Android and iOS. \nThe multi-platform new subscription service is available to any U.S. resident (you don't have to have FiOS TV service or Verizon-operated broadband). And unlike Netflix, which mails disks to users, Redbox makes subscribers pick up their DVDs or Blu-rays at Redbox kiosks. \nThe Redbox Instant website offers this quirky video about the service: \n\nAfter providing an email address on the registration page, a Redbox Instant pop-up says: \"Sweet! We'll share news with you and ask you for feedback along the way. We're thrilled to bring you this new experience, and we hope that you're excited, too.\"\nVerizon announced the Redbox streaming initiative in February when it decided to partner with Coinstar, Redbox's parent company, on the venture.\n\"Together, we are erasing old technology boundaries, freeing people to spontaneously enjoy the entertainment they want, whenever they choose, using the devices and media they prefer, at home or away,\" Bob Mudge, president of Verizon consumer and mass business markets, said in the February announcement. \nBONUS: While You Wait for Your Redbox Instant Invite ... \n\n\n14 Holiday Movies You Can Watch Online\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1. Elf (2003)\n\nWhere to Watch: Amazon Instant | Google Play/YouTube | iTunes\nWhat's It About?: Buddy, a giant-sized elf, leaves the North Pole to discover himself in New York City.\nMemorable Quote: \"You sit on a throne of lies ... You smell like beef and cheese, you don't smell like Santa.\"\nScreenshot via Warner Bros.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)\n\nWhere to Watch: Amazon Instant | Google Play/YouTube | iTunes\nWhat's It About?: The bony and sad Jack Skellington escapes Halloween Town to learn all about Christmas.\nMemorable Quote: \"Forgive me, Mr. Claus, I'm afraid I've made a terrible mess of your holiday.\"\nScreenshot via Walt Disney Pictures\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n3. A Christmas Story  (1983)\n\nWhere to Watch: Amazon Instant | Google Play/YouTube | iTunes\nWhat's It About?: In pursuit of owning a Red Ryder BB gun, Ralphie tries to persuade the adults in his life that he should get one for Christmas.\nMemorable Quote: \"You'll shoot your eye out!\"\nScreenshot via Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4. Eight Crazy Nights (2002)\n\nWhere to Watch: Netflix\nWhat's It About?: Alcoholic troublemaker Davey Stone attempts to turn his life around with help from a cast of animated Jewish characters.\nMemorable Quote: \"Well, right now, I\u2019m going to go for another restaurant record: longest burp.\"\nScreenshot via Columbia Pictures\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n5. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)\n\nWhere to Watch: Amazon Instant | Google Play/YouTube | iTunes\nWhat's It About?: Holiday plans for the Griswold's family gathering go comically wrong -- one right after the other.\nMemorable Quote: \"Can I get you any more egg nog? Get you something to eat? Drive you out to the middle of nowhere, leave you for dead?\"\nScreenshot via Warner Bros.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n6. The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)\n\nWhere to Watch: Amazon Instant | Google Play/YouTube | iTunes\nWhat's It About?: Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol gets a funny revamp filled with Muppets and singing vegetables.\nMemorable Quote: \"Mother always taught me, 'Never eat singing food.'\"\nScreenshot via Walt Disney Pictures\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n7. Die Hard (1988)\n\nWhere to Watch: Amazon Instant | Google Play/YouTube | iTunes\nWhat's It About?: Police officer John McClane works to save a people taken hostage at a Christmas party in Los Angeles.\nMemorable Quote: \"Just a fly in the ointment, Hans. The monkey in the wrench. The pain in the ass.\"\nScreenshot via 20th Century Fox\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n8. It's A Wonderful Life (1946)\n\nWhere to Watch: Amazon Instant | Google Play/YouTube iTunes\nWhat's It About?: A depressed businessman gets a wake-up call from an angel who gives him a glimpse of life had he never been born.\nMemorable Quote: \"Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around, he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?\"\nScreenshot via Paramount Pictures \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n9. The Polar Express (2004)\n\nWhere to Watch: Amazon Instant | iTunes\nWhat's It About?: A boy who doesn't believe in Christmas hops on a magical train to the North Pole.\nMemorable Quote: \"He said Santa would have to fly faster than the speed of light to get to everyone\u2019s house in one night. And to hold everyone\u2019s presents, his sled would have to be bigger than an ocean liner.\"\nScreenshot via Warner Bros.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n10. 12 Dates of Christmas (2011)\n\nWhere to Watch: Hulu | Netflix\nWhat's It About?: Kate relives Christmas Eve 12 times. Each go-around she tries to be more adventurous and happy with the same date.\nMemorable Quote: \"You've only known me for six hours and you're telling me you love me.\"\nScreenshot via ABC Family\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n11. Last Holiday (2006)\n\nWhere to Watch: Google Play/YouTube | Netflix\nWhat's It About?: A shy Georgia finds out she's terminally sick and takes a trip to Europe to live a little.\nMemorable Quote: \"You wait and you wait for something big to happen and then you find out you're going to die.\"\nScreenshot via Paramount Pictures\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n12. Gremlins (1984)\n\nWhere to Watch: iTunes\nWhat's It About?:When wet, Billy's new pet Gizmo spawns creepy monsters that run amok wreaking havoc.\nMemorable Quote: \"Tell me something, Billy. How does a cute little creature like this turn into a thousand ugly monsters?\"\nScreenshot via Warner Bros.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n13. Ernest Saves Christmas (1988)\n\nWhere to Watch: YouTube\nWhat's It About?: Ernest P. Worrell, the late Jim Varney's classic goofball character, helps an aging Santa Claus find a replacement.\nMemorable Quote: \"I am one with the Yuletide, know what I mean?\"\nImage via Touchstone Pictures\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n14. Jack Frost (1979)\n\nWhere to Watch: YouTube\nWhat's It About?: Jack Frost, an immortal winter sprite, turns human after falling in love with a mortal girl. \nMemorable Quote: \"I have words now; I think I just spoke one. I have bones now; I think I almost broke one.\"\nImage via Rankin/Bass Productions\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage courtesy of Redbox\n      window._msla=window.loadScriptAsync||function(src,id){if(document.getElementById(id))return;var js=document.createElement('script');js.id=id;js.src=src;document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0].parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);};\n_msla(\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\",\"twitter_jssdk\");"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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