It's still too early to say exactly what the 1070 will offer - the additional rated power of the Marantz may or may not add up to a practical benefit (the 1070's rated with all channels driven at once, which is unusual for a receiver, so the 65W rating is likely to be very conservative). I agree with PodBoy about THX Select - it is the "entry level" THX certification, so there are the basic THX processing modes (which are not really much different from Dolby Digital and PLIIx) and some quality control testing that would not be difficult for the 1070 to pass if Outlaw chose to pay THX to do it.

With a price tag several hundred dollars higher (list is $700 higher than the 1070), the Marantz does offer some extras: one more component input, auto setup with an auto EQ (although I don't know how effective Marantz's EQ is in this price range), and a second zone. The 1070 will be selling for a good bit less, and it does offer most everything else that the Marantz has plus one interesting extra: bass management options on the 7.1 analog input. The 1070 offers three different options for this input, in fact: none (a pure bypass), an 80Hz analog crossover that keeps the signal in the analog domain all the way through, and an option to convert the signal to digital to apply the quadruple crossovers that are available in the 1070's digital domain.