• The Wall Street Journal, Tuesday, January 11, 2011 12:29 AM

Walt Disney Co. may make videos from some of its television networks available on sets embedded with Yahoo Inc.'s Internet-TV software. 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.

Companies including Apple Inc., Google Inc., and Cisco Systems Inc. have entered the race to combine Internet video and conventional TV in a variety of ways, such as selling separate devices that attach to cable boxes and building software into cable boxes and new TV sets.

But TV networks also fear upsetting the traditional TV ecosystem, which generates tens of billions of dollars a year in advertising and cable subscription fees.

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