2008 April | Online Casinos

To Download Or Not: The Online Casinos Question

April 8th, 2008

Most common online casinos nowadays offer you the choice to play with or without downloading any additional software. In general though online casinos that require a download will have better graphics quality and faster game play. Here’s a rundown on some of the more common types of online casino software available.

Flash Online Casinos. These types of casinos allow you to play through your web browser without having to download any software, just as long as you are connected to the Internet. Aside from download casino software, these types offer the best sound and graphics quality and fast game play.

Java Online Casinos. While these types of casinos were popular many years ago, the advent of Flash based casinos has made them somewhat dated today. Not too many of these exist now and graphics quality and playability aren’t really that good.

HTML Online Casinos. The barebones model of the online casino family, these are even harder to find than Java based casinos. Pretty rudimentary but they do offer fast–albeit limited–game play.

Live Dealer Online Casinos. This is quite a unique concept in online casinos: you can actually play with a human dealer in real time via a webcam! As you can imagine, this is about as close to real online casinos as you can get.