What I want to know is if Pioneer has added on-screen overlay of Volume and Input information with the source audio/video in the background yet.
I have a VSX-1120 and it has a "full GUI overlay", but it blanks out the audio and video when it's up, and doesn't show what input is active, it's just for setting up the receiver. The VSX-1121 is similar.
I have my receiver inside a cabinet in the back of the room, so cannot see the LED display on the receiver.
Also, if Audioholics gets a 1022 or 1122 in for review, if the switching time for the QDEO chip has improved. Whenever I switch from 1080i sources to 720p sources or 480i sources from my cable box (I don't want the cable box to do the upscaling, but want the fancy chip in the Pioneer AV Receiver to do it), it takes a few seconds for the receiver to detect the change and display anything but a black screen... it's really kind of annoying.
Maybe it's time to switch to Yamaha, which has had "real" HDMI overlay for several years how... but I wonder how the response time is of the video upscaling between difference source material.