Yahoo announced today that its Connected TV widgets will begin showing up on such devices as home media boxes, Blu-ray players, and cable and IPTV set top boxes.

Yahoo says it's teamed up with chip makers MIPS and Sigma designs to produce reference chips running Yahoo widgets, which manufactures can use to build new Yahoo Connect TV devices.

Yahoo's original plan was to make its widgets available on new HDTVs. The service shipped on various lines of Sony, Vizio, Samsung, and LG TVs during 2009.

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