ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | This is shaping up to the be the year streaming video becomes ultra-competitive. Netflix is starting to recover after a near disastrous price hike announcement in 2011, as reported by Forbes, and a recent announcement says Verizon and Redbox will form a streaming video partnership that will be up and running by the end of the year, the Associated Press reported. Now, Amazon is getting ready to jump into the streaming video world in a major way, according to Reuters. Can anyone knock Netflix off its perch?