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How to Fill a Stadium? Offer Better Video Print E-mail

 

The New Meadowlands Stadium  uses new video technology.

How to Fill a Stadium? Offer Better Video

With the New Meadowlands Stadium in New Jersey set to provide fans free smart-phone applications and enhanced video, is a live game no longer enough to pack the seats?

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