USA - Gamers visiting Arizona’s 98,000sq.ft Talking Stick Resort casino are enjoying an array of high-resolution displays which wrap around each zone to enhance the experience, with twelve Green Hippo Hippotizer Media Servers installed for video duty.
The luxury complex, which is located on the Salt-River Pima Maricopa Indian Reservation near Scottsdale, is undergoing a major renovation and expansion, with its Arena Poker Room the host for the annual Arizona State and Arizona State Ladies Poker Championships.
The project’s aim was to upgrade the resort’s inefficient and low-quality CMS system, which was not capable of handling the high-resolution graphics files required for the newly installed DVLED walls in multiple locations. Scottsdale-based Immedia was appointed to specify the video manipulation, management and processing package. Inside the resort The Poker Room offers 69 tables, making it the largest in Arizona.
“The Poker Room includes a total of 11 displays, and we deployed and commissioned three Hippotizer Tierra+ MK2 and two Hippotizer Boreal+ MK2 Media Servers to complete this space,” explains Immedia’s VP of sales, Carl Adams. “The primary decision criteria was based on the ability to load, schedule, and process high resolution, high bit rate content on the high resolution displays, which lead us to Hippotizer as the solution with enough processing power and output punch.”
There are a series of DVLED walls throughout The Poker Room and The Showroom, that include three large 20’ x 16’ displays in a hallway, two column wraps that are 17’ x 7’, and a series of ribbon type displays that weave through the showroom and align on columns in The Poker Room. The displays range from .93MM to 1.67MM.
The Showroom now offers a total of 10 displays and the Immedia team deployed and commissioned one Hippotizer Tierra+ MK2 and three Hippotizer Boreal+ MK2 Media Servers to complete the space.
“As the project progressed, the Talking Stick Resort team added two more individual walls in new locations, and we specified two Hippotizer Karst+ MK2 Media Servers - one for each wall – which our team acquired direct from tvONE/Green Hippo,” says Adams. “We undertook online training, and as a result completed most of the configuration and commissioning of the Hippotizer units. Green Hippo provided some remote support and were able to help our team optimize the image result. We continue to support the resort team with training and their in-house team has been able to update and load new files. The configurations and resulting images are fantastic.”
Talking Stick Resort has contracted bespoke digital art company Render Impact for custom, very high resolution and high bit rate, 3D content. “Currently, the content is being developed in playlist or file mode and our team is working to provide programming that allows the team to recall specific playlist presets,” adds Adams.
“Moving forward, we hope to install even more Hippotizer Media Servers into the environment for additional screens, and we will provide ongoing support.”
The mammoth resort includes more than 850 slot machines, 54 tables of blackjack, three card poker, craps, roulette, pai gow, ultimate Texas hold'em, let it ride and lucky ladies. Green Hippo Hippotizer Media Servers are now distributed by ACT Entertainment in North America.
