Web Browsing Coming to Jailbroken Apple TVs [Video]

The life of a jailbroken second-gen Apple TV just keeps improving. First there was weather . OK! But soon, because of a software suite called aTV Flash , your ATV will probably be in a position to browse the internet and play Last.fm radio.

Fire Core’s hoping to roll out the beta for aTV Flash inside the next two weeks, and as these videos show, it’ll mark a pleasant breakthrough for less-than-official second-gen Apple TV functionality. Couch Surfer Pro, the suite’s web browser, appears to be like running pretty smoothly already (with a pleasant big cursor for laid-back-in-the-couch viewing), and the team is working on ironing out support for a couple of more plugins before the release.

The first beta will aslo have a pleasing Last.fm radio player, complete with animated slideshows.

Fire Core says that their third major goal, support for added video codecs, is coming along more slowly but steadily nonetheless:

Not surprisingly this has turned out to be no trivial task – consequently we’ve teamed up with a couple of outside developers to go things along slightly more quickly. We’ll have more info as things progress but unfortunately this probably won’t make it into the initial beta version. The top goal however remains an analogous – robust support for non-itunes media (including DVD files).

Between projects like these and the somewhat surprisingly wide swath of video which might be streamed from iOS devices via AirPlay, the $99 AppleTV is asking like a more versatile big screen companion than ever. [ Fire Core via 9 to 5 Mac ]

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