Sports Bar Gets Serious AV WITH SOLID PROLETARIAN BAR FARE

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1 Vol. 60 No.10 Ocber 20, 2014 AV FOR SYSTEMS INTEGRATORS, CONTRACTORS AND CONSULTANTS Sports Bar Gets Serious AV WITH SOLID PROLETARIAN BAR FARE Visual Beauty, Acoustic Challenge Bridling marble implement smart AVL Sports Book Wynn New design integrates nearby as simple expansion IPTV Digital Signage Gamble New technology improves Choctaw Casino guest experience

2 SPORTS BOOK WYNN New design integrates nearby as simple expansion. BY JIM STOKES To paraphrase a well known saying, Updated AV happened in Vegas stayed in Vegas. That s overall me of this discussion, where we ll take you behind scenes, AV-wise, inside Race Sports Book at Wynn, Las Vegas. Wynn in Las Vegas has a new sports lounge. 12'x12' Screens First, let s get our bearings. The popular venue features 100 individual horseracing carrels additional seating in its adjacent sports VIP lounges, bar a Zoozacrackers Deli. Participants place a bet or watch a game. In race sports book a, gamblers can watch action on plasma TVs three 12'x12' screens. Our Las Vegas-based interview- Ocber

3 Wynn s new Race Sports Book features six videowall panels. ees Bradley Jones, Operations Direcr, FBP Systems, Inc. (fbp.com), Remo Minor, Sound Visual Commu - nications Manager, Wynn Las Vegas (wynnlasvegas.com). Major components in AV install include a videowall in control room a digital media switcher/router. De - sign integration was by FBP Systems. Bee we launch in AV update, Minor offered a perspective on how gaming inmation in venue is updated constantly. The races support staff upstairs typi - cally updating all odds boards race sheets betrs see what s upcoming make ir bets on floor downstairs, he explained. The staff is always updating inmation entering data in ir computers show reader boards downstairs all current odds scores. So, staff is run - ning race sports book behind scenes up re. Then re s betting counter downstairs that actually takes bets cusmers. Displays show not only sports book data but also related advertisements promotions. Viewing is via existing large TV screens rear-screen projection. There s also an existing dedicated streaming sports ticker running across botm of display banks. Meeting Media Dems Where all betting display inmation throughout venue has be swift reliable, electronics have meet media dems, as well. According Minor, an older dis - tribution switching was maxed. With an eye ward future expansion by adding more TVs, solution was go HD. That would allow feeds be extended or as in hotel.

4 Video Lighting A/V The routing of Race Sports Book. The solution involved conversion an ana - log an SVSi high-definition digital matrix router. The has 66 inputs by 132 outputs. Of 64 inputs, 24 designated traditional TV sources satellite cable boxes. The remain - ing inputs horse race track feeds. All TVs can display feeds eir horse racing or sports. The large race sports a features 64 TV screens. There 10 screens in adjoining deli. The ad - ditional outputs used preview monirs in control room, 34 feeds in horse racing carrels six additional feeds in poker room. According Jones, venue s 24/7 operation was a challenge in installation. We had maintain 100% operation no downtime on sports book, he pointed out. We had a pretty remarkable schedule that we had follow in less than 30 days. By time we got equipment delivered manufacturers, we had one week get install completely done. No Service Interruption So re would be no interruption of service, older analog had run simultaneously digital matrix install. We did sections at a time, said Jones. We ok a section brought it up on SVSi at night. And n next day, y d do ir normal operations. Then at night, we d take anor section down bring it back up SVSi. We kept doing that till we were done. He explained that it was quite easy using built-in soft - w, which allowed engineers provide a spread - sheet installation team. When team loaded spreadsheet in processor, processor identified Pro Audio Pro Audio Video Solutions For Any Budget Lighting A/V Same-Day Shipping $15 Million of Invenry Over 500 Brs Pro Audio Solutions For Any Budget Same-Day Shipping $15 Million of Invenry Over 500 Brs Fast easy online dealer application! fdwcor p. com Fast easy online dealer application! fdwcor p. com

5 loaded all field devices based on MAC addresses. Encoders done in s sent destinations. In addition encoders decoders, has a central control server, SVSi N8002, which acts as a liaison between Crestron control digital matrix devices maintain large numbers of open IP socket con - nections required by network-pow - ered matrix. Corning fiber carries audio video using Cat5 Cat6 over IP. We used some existing cable, said Jones. For instance, in that a, we put a 24-port Cisco PoE switch in ceil - ing in a Hoffman box. It came out of Hoffman box went all TVs in that a. So, we were able power decoders PoE. And we were able control TVs everything over fiber. So, two fiber strs back head end, we were able bring that entire side up over re. Control Room The control room usually has two op - erars. It features a new Planar videowall consisting of six 46-inch LCDs in a 3x2 configuration. We pulled out around 30 TVs that used compos - ite input front, said Jones. Each display in new videowall has its own window processor so you can bring up four feeds (quad composite view) what s going on out in sports book. Jpg stills dropped on live feeds so you can label each im - age. That way, people in control room know what y re looking at. Displays accessed via two Crestron 18-inch uchscreens. Because more monirs were required in control room after install, venue AV team added a botm row of six 19-inch preview screens. The equipment rack room is located on or side of videowall. Regarding AV trends, Jones said, I think ever ybody begins freak out about analog sunset component is starting go away. So, y re starting get worried. They need something that s HDTV-approved where you have some future proofing. However, he related a cautionar y true sr y that happened in anor casino (no names mentioned) where stard high definition were re - tained. We replaced ir screens high-definition projecrs. It looked great. I went back a week or two later y re back running stard def. I asked why. They said delay was so extreme between stard def high def that cusm - ers were annoyed. So, y ended up changing it all back stard def. It CRE A TE L ISTEN I N G E XPERIEN CES T HAT HAT MA MA TTER TTER W ITH ITH AWARDED AWARDED BEST IN SHOW BEST IN SHOW InfoComm 2014 InfoComm 2014 was kind of a waste of money. That disaster, however, won t hap - pen in Wynn install. The sports book has a cusmized house feed that can go anywhere in casino, Jones pointed out. That s best thing about this project (distribution switching) product. Sound & Communications Contributing Edir Jim Skes has been involved in AV industry as an AV technician writer almost 40 years.,, a revolutionary revolutionary creates creates positive positive experiences experiences in in environments environments where where it s it s hard hard hear. hear. streamlines streamlines assistive assistive c c process process better better management management srage srage solutions solutions revolutionize revolutionize sound sound quality, quality, smallest smallest of of ir ir kind, kind, come come ability ability cusmize cusmize receiver receiver channels channels six six or or also also available available existing existing MHz MHz s s For For more more inmation inmation on on visit visit Copyright 2014 by Technologies Corporation. All Rights Reserved Copyright 2014 by Technologies Corporation. All Rights Reserved

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