Chris Albrecht over at NewTeeVee has a post about widgets on your TV. Apparently, consumers are looking favorably on this. Yay! It seems the concept came out of nowhere at CES this year when Yahoo! announced their widget toolbar and manufacturers (chiefly, Vizio) announced the integration of this toolbar on their TVs. The toolbar would include not only classic Yahoo! widgets such as a clock, weather and Flickr photos, but also Netflix and Blockbuster streaming. I said it then and I’ll repeat it now… this is the death knell for not only DVD and Blu-ray, but also cable TV (although not cable internet). Just in case you’re wondering why Time-Warner Cable and Comcast are putting bandwidth limits on their internet access… this is why.

It looks like FiOS (in its continued crusade to slay the cable giant) is also unleashing a widget toolbar, with Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. The more the merrier! Competition means lower prices.