Casino with immersive LED, Belgium

Modulo Pi’s media servers at the core of a new casino in Belgium

In the spring of 2024, the Silt casino opened in the town of Middelkerke, Belgium. The new Groupe Partouche establishment features an event cabaret at its heart. Adjacent to the slot machines room, the venue is accessible through a clever system of pivoting alcoves clad with LED walls. All the LEDs are powered by Modulo Pi’s Modulo Player media server solution.

Inaugurated at the end of March 2024 in the town of Middelkerke, the Silt casino is already a landmark on the Flemish coast. Set on a man-made dike right next to the North Sea, the Groupe Partouche establishment includes a gaming hall, a hotel, several restaurants and an event space.

 Jean-Philippe Corrigou, equipment designer for the project, explains: “The Groupe Partouche philosophy is to create entertaining experiences at its casinos. With this in mind, Patrick Partouche came up with the idea of creating a cabaret in the casino to extend the customer experience around festive events and various shows”.

 The integration of the event cabaret was cleverly designed to fit elegantly with the gaming room:

“On the casino side, several alcove booths welcome guests, and turn 180 degrees when a show is about to start. The audience then finds itself in the cabaret” explains Jean-Philippe Corrigou.

The casino features an extensive LED display to amplify the experience. At the entrance, a Unilumin LED photocall with a pitch of 1.5 is installed.

In addition, the walls of the rotating alcoves are made of curved Unilumin UHF flexible LED screens, with a pitch of 1.8. Immersion is completed by two LED screens of one square meter each, with a pitch of 1.5, nestled in each of the seating booths.

The 150m² LED install is powered by 2 x Modulo Player equipped with 2 and 3 x 4K outputs. Jean-Philippe Corrigou turned to Modulo Pi‘s media servers, which he has been using “for several years for integrations, museums, events and sports events”.

In the Silt casino, Modulo Player enables multi-stream management in 4K at 50Hz for all LED walls, with large pixel spaces of up to 21,600 x 1,620 pixels resolution for the immersive content.

Commonly used to easily manage complex warping in mapping applications, Modulo Player‘s X-Map function proved particularly useful on this project. Loïc Lecocq, responsible for the media servers installation and programming, used X-Maps to optimally divide up the LED space so that each Modulo Player output could be used to its full potential. As a result, the number of media server outputs and LED controllers required for the installation was reduced to a minimum, despite the unusual resolution of the LEDs.

Along with the delivery of immersive content in ProRes 422, Modulo Player also offers the acquisition of TV signals for broadcasting programs, such as sporting events, on the LED screens. To operate as a mixer, the Modulo Player media servers are equipped with HDMI 2.0 capture cards. Live programs are displayed as PIP overlays on the LED walls.

In addition, tasks have been created in Modulo Player. These are triggered by the Crestron system that controls the entire audiovisual system, to facilitate day-to-day operation.

Lastly, the system installed is monitored via an NDI stream sent by Modulo Player over the network.

Chosen for their “quality and reliability”, Modulo Pi‘s media servers ensure “24/7 operation”, concludes Jean-Philippe Corrigou.