No hatred at all. I am a DR-70D owner and was the first to ever report on here about personal card issues months ago.
Then the flood began...
I was simply joking around and, quite frankly, Tascam deserves the jokes at this point...at the very least. I still like and use the recorder, btw.
OK I read that as serious.
$599? Hmm, I wonder if the new features on this thing are really worth double the original list price of the 70D? As the owner of a modded 70D, I wonder if they have upgraded the opamps or the preamp circuit in general. They're described as "HDDA" which the same generic marketing term used with the 70D and a couple of their other recent recorders. Clearly it has a new DAC and DSP, but if the analog section isn't upgraded then the price seems hard to swallow.
EDIT: I suppose timecode input would make it quite attractive to the target audience. Are there other audio recorders with TC input this price? The closest I can think of is the F8, but that has a high-precision TC generator as well, which is one of several reasons that deck is probably a much better value than this new Tascam.
In terms of price and features, this reminds me of what Sony did going from PCM-M10 to PCM-D100. I know a few people here have the D100 and really like it, but the price is much higher for not much more functionality (though I'm sure a quality upgrade).