Robert,

I'd be interested in hearing how it went since my unit has 1.01 as well.

What's of more interest to me is some sort of summary of what problems these firmware etc. upgrades are supposed to fix. I don't have the patience to go through the thousands of posts (most of them inane and arcane) on the topic that one can find on a variety of forums - and Onkyo doesn't seem to post much of any help either.

Right now my 886 is running without any problems - however it does have a quirk or two that I'm wondering whether is fixed via these upgrades - or not.

If you have such a summary, or have seen a good one posted, I'd sure appreciate seeing it.