Abstract: A system and method for receiving and displaying computer animations and graphical user interfaces, comprising interactive, animated, semi-transparent graphics and/or combined text or other displayable information. The animations are received from a data storage system or a network through a data stream, and possibly created, modified and destroyed either through the data stream or as a consequence of a user action on the interactive items. In addition, the animations are intended to be semi-transparently displayed over a background video content, either in a single or in a set of digital video file(s) or stream(s).