Walt Disney Co. is discussing making video from some of its television networks available on sets embedded with Yahoo Inc.’s Internet-TV software, people familiar with the matter said.
Such new offerings would propel Yahoo into a broader battle to use the Internet to bring premium content to digital TVs, amping up the competition with traditional cable-TV and satellite operators.
Yahoo Connected TV software is built into a wide array of TV sets and allows media companies to create applications known as widgets, which people can use as they watch TV. But so far Yahoo’s widgets don’t offer much free video from TV networks.
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