No, it's a good thing to know the options if somebody would tell him.
In Pambs case, the Pronto would work just fine and so would Crestron.
Everybody here knows that Crestron can do a lot of things others can't, but the question here are if Pambs needs a Crestron setup for his gear, I don't think so. If he had bigger plans I suppose he would have told us.
I would go for the Pronto and used the saved money on some other fun stuff.