Rather than engaging in conspiracy theories, has anyone actually acted on
Tom's recommendation send their card containing errors to Tascam so they could analyze it? You can self-congratulate yourselves all you want on your brilliant theories regarding Tascam's possible bait-and-switch, but at the end of the day, don't you want to see the problem fixed? That's how Sound Devices solved their recent issue with Win 10 - users sent their cards or at least the disk images to SD and Microsoft, and they figured it out. If in fact this is a problem with the recorder or firmware, why not try to help solve the problem? When I spoke to him yesterday, he said that only one person had done this.
BTW, if you look at the
results of the card survey so far, there doesn't appear to be any correlation between firmware version and whether or not there are recording errors. Out of 24 respondents, 11 reported errors. The firmware of those 11 who reported errors was 1.11 (7), 1.10 (3), and 1.01 (1). The fact that most of the people have 1.11 doesn't ring any bells for me, as it's the latest version and most people would update to stay current.
Speaking of the 24 people who responded to the survey... well, only 24 people have responded to the survey! If this really is a widespread issue, I think it would be helpful to everyone reading this who have had trouble to
please report it on the survey. Go ahead and email customer support also if you feel it's necessary. If you really think Tascam is being evasive in how they are dealing with this, then we here have the ability to present them with significant data for them to see it's a significant problem. Looking at the data we have so far, there are only a very small number of people having problems. Right now, the sample size is very small, and from everything I can find, TS is the only place reporting problems with the 70D.