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Author Topic: Who works with Dolby NA10 Network automation Interface? Alexander Tarakin Film Handler Posts: 19 From: Israel - Ramat Gan Registered: Aug 2012 posted 11-27-2013 06:56 AM                        Hello, Did someone work with this product? or currently working with it? Is he good and reliable? how much does it cost? Thank you!  |  IP: Logged Marco Giustini Film God Posts: 2713 From: Reading, UK Registered: Nov 2007 posted 11-27-2013 09:49 AM                     I think you'd better find something else unless you get one for free! The upside is that being a Dolby product you connect to a Dolby server and your cues are automatically downloaded. But it's quite limited and its ethernet link is not very reliable. I wouldn't buy one, if you get one for free - or almost for free - go for it. Otherwise find something else.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-27-2013 10:59 AM                     We had so many problems with the NA10 that we developed our own RS232 automation to replace it  |  IP: Logged Sam D. Chavez Film God Posts: 2153 From: Martinez, CA USA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 11-27-2013 11:58 AM                       I have a number of local cinemas using these but they have been out of production for quite a while now. They were quite expensive but all are working reliably though.  |  IP: Logged Alexander Tarakin Film Handler Posts: 19 From: Israel - Ramat Gan Registered: Aug 2012 posted 11-27-2013 04:13 PM                        Dear Sam, can you tell me the price of one unit?  |  IP: Logged Sam D. Chavez Film God Posts: 2153 From: Martinez, CA USA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 11-27-2013 05:39 PM                       If memory serves, it was $3,450 list price which is one reason it did not sell very well.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 11-27-2013 06:22 PM                     It was a lot of money for just some relays in a box that only worked via Ethernet and only with one brand of server.  |  IP: Logged Alexander Tarakin Film Handler Posts: 19 From: Israel - Ramat Gan Registered: Aug 2012 posted 11-29-2013 08:18 AM                        Is there a product that does the same job and worth baying?  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 11-29-2013 09:38 AM                     Not with a Dolby server and through Ethernet, AFAIK. - Carsten  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 11-29-2013 10:08 AM                     Not via Ethernet...only via RS232. I strongly recommend the Eprad/Strong eCNA series (eCNA5 and the eCNA10). They have at least 16 relay outputs, 6 analog inputs, can control 5 Ethernet devices and are expandable as needed. The eCNA5 is a bit less than $1000 US On the lower cost front, many use the JNIOR automation. On the least cost front, one can use the DSS' built in I/O relays...and they are indeed relays. By modifying an XML file, you can have the cues say what you want, control them as Latched or pulsed (and set the duration of the pulse).  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 11-29-2013 12:11 PM                     Correction...8 GPI inputs (minimum). As Strong normally configures it, the eCNA 10 comes with an optional I/O module that extends it by another 8 relay outputs and 8 GPI inputs.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-02-2013 08:13 PM                     I actually never had any real issues with them at all. They always just seemed to work fine doing what they were designd to do. I am actually re-installing two used ones a customer bought in a couple of weeks and another used one with a DSS-200 after those go in. They are used just to control lights and it's a neater thing than dealing with the GPIO and some relays... plus there is plenty of future expansion. Ok for small simple venues. Not for more complicated ones though... Mark  |  IP: Logged

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