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Spring 2024 – LOCAL695.COM 11 Cine-COMM Inc. harnesses the potential of the Bolero system to create and deploy turnkey wireless systems specifically for the film and television industry. Beltpacks can be programed to interface with one another, but can also communicate with existing systems such as Production Sound, Voice of God (VOD)systems, IFBs and Earwigs, Audio Playback, and even Bluetooth audio devices. Bolero's high-clarity voice codec provides higher speech intelligibility than standard walkie units and a robust RF system designed to keep units functioning in challenging environments where other systems might fail. Unlike conventional walkie- talkies, the system supports Duplex communication, meaning that multiple speakers can communicate simultaneously. This allows for more conversational usage and eliminates the age- old problem of one person accidentally drowning out an entire walkie channel by holding or setting their device down in just the wrong way. Most importantly, this system is far more secure than open band communication systems. When relying on traditional walkie-talkies, productions leave themselves vulnerable to clever members of the press and paparazzi who might source walkies with the same channels in order to monitor on set communications, resulting in production and casting leaks before studios are ready to make such announcements. However, by encoding all communications, Riedel's system protects the security of the production and ensures that no one whose device isn't on the same network can monitor chatter throughout the day. Cine-COMM systems are highly customizable and are individually tailored to the needs of a given production. The company packages all necessary components for a given shoot, providing both the hardware and configuration services to ensure proper implementation on set. Though the company was founded in