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To Pack a Stadium, Provide Video Better Than Tv
The New Meadowlands Stadium uses new video technology.
Robert Stolarik for The New York Times
How do you keep football fans as regular visitors to stadiums when the television coverage of every play is so good?
For the Giants and the Jets, the answer, perhaps surprisingly, is more and better video than people can get at home. This season, the New Meadowlands Stadium will offer fans free smart-phone applications that they can glance at to see video replays, updated statistics and live video from other games—and that will work only inside a stadium.
Over the next few years, stadium officials say, the applications will provide fans with statistics on the speed of players and the ball, and fantasy games that will allow them to pick players and compete against other fans.
A real-life game no longer seems to be enough.
From The New York Times
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