Well, it appears that I am officially retired from the casino industry, whether I like it or not. It's been about 4 years since I've done this. So it's gonna take me a little while to get back in the swing of things. I plan on posting at least twice a week maybe more. Now that I don't work in the industry anymore. I feel like I can say or comment on just about anything. But if you have any suggestions, please reply to this blog and I will be happy to address them. Thanks for reading, and please don't forget to like comment and share. I'll talk to you soon, good luck, everybody.
This is a repost of a post I made about a year ago, but I feel like it bares s repeating. Enjoy. I got another good question last week, from a reader wanting to know what a surveillance room is like, how it is laid out and how it is staffed and run. So here goes. I have worked in surveillance departments at six different casinos in the last 25 years. Some very small (300 slots, 6 blackjack tables) and some very big (3000 slots, 60-70 table games of all kinds). When I started in the early 90's it was all VCRs and not all cameras were recorded all the time. We used a lot of "multi-plexers" and "quad screens". A multi-plexer used one VCR to display and record up to 16 screens on one monitor. Since the VCR still records at 30 frames per second, that meant that if you did a review on any one of those 16 screens you would be looking at a "freeze frame" effect, where you only got 1.8 frames per second of the shot you were looking at. A quad would record ...
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