I went to a local home theater dealer to see the B&K AVR307 receiver, and to my surprise he had one MX1000 which he received three days ago. He is a tester for Universal apparantly. I played with it and was very disappointed with the screen contrast. But it was a working unit, so release can't be far away.

I've decided to stick with the SL9000 that comes with the AVR307. The poor contrast was enough to turn me off the MX1000.