I'm glad they made an update finally. I'm sure it will be a great processor. Not sure if this has anything to do with the delay, but I know Marantz's AV8802A firmware updates for DTS:X are slated for early February and the updates should start pushing out for AV7702mkII early March. Just passing on information. I ended up getting the mkII at a discounted price, so I bit..... But I did end up getting the Outlaw model 5000 for the overhead channels instead of using my Outlaw model 750.