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 It took forever plus 3 days for the package to arrive, I bought 10 of the colbys. and was disappointed to find that though GIF formats are handled, the units flattens any animation factor by taking only the first frame of a gif animation and discarding the rest...... BUMMER! 
 Looking at Tor's results, I had assumed that an animation was happening, I see now that it is a 5 second transition between stills instead.
Here is what Im after...True animation. cursers flashing, numbers rolling, reticles sliding. In short, symbology dancing on the screen like MC hammer on ecstacy. 
What is needed is an engine that will play avi mpeg or mov files..... so! it appears that Im back to square one with my bag of used cell phones, or give the Oleds linked by Guillermo a try. 
I did notice that angling a glass off of the digiframe graphics did give a convincing and vivid(indoors) though static hud effect. Oh well. back to the lab.

Bela