Can one play movies or gifs on textures in unity?

Can I play a gif or a .mov or .mp4 on a texture in unity?

for example I have a plane with a texture and on the plane a pre made animation plays in a loop?

This would be used practically for lets say having a Tv in game which would play the news on it while the player walks around the room.

Yea, you need Unity pro.

http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/Manual/Video%20Files.html

http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/37356-How-to-apply-Movie-Textures

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You could also try a script like the following, which makes use of Mono’s System.Drawing library: http://wiki.unity3d.com/index.php/AnimatedGifDrawer