I'm in the UK and got mine ;-)
Very happy with it, its very fast at everything.
No probs so far, picture looks great on my 50" panasonic
Go with Black Hole image, 3 updates in a week, seems they are the only team giving the box support.
^G@w@in^ I'm planning on going with the BH 1.7.9 , probably a dumb question though, Should I try the factory default firmware on first boot up, then upgrade to BH when I'm sure the box is OK?