On KVUE News, (NBC) I saw a report by Becky Worley from Park City, Utah at the Sundanace Film Festival. WiMax is getting rolled out at Sundance for distributing films. What is wimax? You've heard of wi fi, right? Well wimax is a way of distributing video content over a 30 mile radius. Becky, a stringy blonde with a campy straw cowboy hat, was also tossing around a way cool HVR D1 High Def Camera from Sony. Drool! More on wimax WiMAX is referred to as "WiFi on steroids". It has the potential to enable even more millions to access the Internet wirelessly, cheaply and easily. Proponents say that WiMAX wireless coverage will be measured in square kilometers/miles while that of WiFi is measured in square meters/yards. According to WiMAX promoters, a WiMAX base station would beam high-speed Internet connections to homes and businesses in a radius of up to 50 km (31 miles); these base stations will eventually cover an entire metropolitan area, making that area into a WMAN and allowing true wireless mobility within it, as opposed to hot-spot hopping required by WiFi. The proponents are hoping that the technology will eventually be used in notebook computers and PDAs. True roaming cell-like wireless broadband, however, is IEEE standard 802.20, which is compatible with WiMAX. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimax