D Lottery to test new technology, broaden games

The state Lottery Commission gave approval Wednesday to a test of high-speed data technology for video lottery establishments.

The lottery's administrators & commissioners depicted it as the gate for providing new sorts of legalized gambling across South Dakota.

10 locations will be the 1st recipients of the digital subscriber lines — DSL, for brief — linking their video lottery terminals with the state agency's central computer.

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The DSL technology will permit info to be exchanged in genuine time and make doable new gw2 gold games, such as progressive slot-machine jackpots offered in casinos.

Establishment operators also may offer a number of distinctive games on a single terminal making use of the DSL connections, lottery director Norm Lingle stated.

"This really is kind of the gateway to the future for our strategic plan," commissioner Roger Novotny of Pierre mentioned.

The test project will cost the lottery an estimated $38,000.

The technology would be fitted over about six weeks in January & February, stated Clark Hepper, the lottery's new deputy director. He is spearheading the project.

If the pilot proves successful, Lingle said, lottery administrators will ask the commission subsequent December for approval to go statewide to 1,500 establishments.

Full roll-out would expense an estimated $290,000 for equipment and programming.

For the moment, the principal purpose of the DSL technology is to replace the method used by the lottery agency to check nightly on the level of everyday action played on each video lottery terminal.

The lottery's computer strategy at present gathers that details by making telephone calls to each terminal.

Lingle mentioned other benefits would be the creation of what he explained as a loyalty program and a players' club approach to track willing video lottery prospects. gw2 gold players club services & promotions mostly are provided by Deadwood casinos and other casinos all through the nation.

Jukeboxes increasingly use DSL technology rather than vinyl records or CDs, with much wider musical selections possible, Lingle mentioned.

He stated DSL "just opens the door" to future purposes that aren't attainable with dial-up communications.