kjl,
1070 used to sell for $899. The difference between it and the Rotel seems to be more like 44%, pretty significant, percent-wise. I know, you said "the difference in $".
The DVI switching is not that big of a deal. A set of HDMI-DVI adaptors ($10 total from Monoprice) made the cables absolutely transferrable, thus no problem there.
I totally agree that the net difference doesn't make up for the quirks, hence the very title of this thread
, but, apparently, not everybody seems to have been hit by the bugs, thus there is a community of happy 1070 owners out there.