The life of a jailbroken second-gen Apple TV just keeps getting better. First there was weather. OK! But soon, thanks to a software suite called aTV Flash, your ATV will be able to browse the web and play Last.fm radio.
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Fire Core’s hoping to roll out the beta for aTV Flash within the next two weeks, and as these videos show, it’ll mark a nice step forward for less-than-official second-gen Apple TV functionality. Couch Surfer Pro, the suite’s web browser, seems to be running pretty smoothly already (with a nice big cursor for laid-back-in-the-couch viewing), and the team is working on ironing out support for a few more plugins before the release.
The first beta will aslo have a nice Last.fm radio player, complete with animated slideshows.
Fire Core says that their third major goal, support for additional video codecs, is coming along more slowly but steadily nonetheless:
Not surprisingly this has turned out to be no trivial task – because of this we’ve teamed up with a few outside developers to move things along a bit more quickly. We’ll have more info as things progress but unfortunately this probably won’t make it into the initial beta version. The end goal however remains the same – robust support for non-itunes media (including DVD files).
Between projects like these and the somewhat surprisingly wide swath of video that can be streamed from iOS devices via AirPlay, the $99 AppleTV is looking like a more versatile big screen companion than ever. [Fire Core via 9 to 5 Mac]
