The idea using gifs for the main icons in smarters and indeed using gifs for backgrounds in XCIPTV is a step forward for the modders
Its showing people are thinking outside the box and putting those thoughts into practice , that said I have had both the above backgrounds and icons available and although I like them myself cant give them away let alone sell them ,people just shit the bed and think sticks or devices will not be able to handle the animation , but what they dont know is sometimes if done correct the gifs are smaller than the .png backgrounds or icons.
Its a sad world we live in where a person will pay £60 a year for their IPTV subscription but will only spend £30 on the device to play the service on?
Sticks make up a large part of the IPTV viewing audience thinking you got a bargain by only paying £30 for one is only cheating yourself at the end of the day
I know its horses for courses and each to their own depending on how much you use your device.
I personally like the animated gifs if done correctly which very few are can work really well , the secret is as always to keep it simple a good gif editor gives you tons of options , instead of having a constant moving animation you can at a fraction of the size set up a gif so its like a slideshow and set the display intervals ,sounds hard to do but real is not .
so thumbs up to all the modders that try to think outside the box and bring us these little gems because without them forums like this would not exist.