Nothingham,

Make sure you get one of these units to take home along with the Via Tools/learner. You should spend time poking and finding your way thru as much of the program as you can. Sign up right away for the course in Kentucky, so when you go, you will have some good questions to ask and some real world problems to resolve. I hope the salesperson on the job knows which pieces of source gear work best with the Elan system. IF not, point them out. You will have a lot to learn, especially with the serial interface and the video switcher. Take it all in and enjoy. Stay on top of it and I hope to see you back on the forum telling us about the raise you got.