Read "almosthappy" review for workaround to DOA issue
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The first Zen we bought would not turn on at all. We used the Amazon return process and quickly received a replacement.  In the meantime, I read the comment / review from "almosthappy" about how to charge the battery on a player that was Dead on Arrival. The second player was DOA as well. We followed his instructions and used a wall charger from an old CD player. Once the battery had enough charge we could boot up the player.  It would be nice if Creative provided a wall charger with the MP3 player.  (One can be purchased as part of a pkg with a silicone cover, and a travel and wall charger. I found them on Amazon for ~ $26.) We have three Zens in our family and so far they seem to work well. We will have to reserve judgment until more time has passed. I recommend buying a decent set of earbuds if you find the ones that came with the MP3 player to be uncomfortable.
2272599
DOA obviously tells you that the product isn't tested prior to shipping.  I contacted the seller to see if there may be a simple solution and all I got was a blanket answer.
3720056
Continue to have conflicts with residuals of Idrive which I had deleted (i thought).
Have deleted and re- downloaded several times but problems persist. Have gone to Seagate support but find nothing to address my problem
4352155
The first device I received was DOA. Kinivo support was great and quickly sent a replacement. The replacement device worked well for a few weeks then I started to experience connectivity issues. I completely uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers. That helped for a few days but one day the adapter was no longer responsive. I have decided to return the adapter and shop other brands.
1208914
DOA.  Called La Cie tech support and explained the problem. Rep thought it was a power supply issue. I returned the drive to Amazon.
1042265
DOA!  No damage to package - but did not turn on at all.  Much sadness.  :(
UPDATE!!!!  Lafraise  contacted me directly about the product problem and made it very simple for me to get a replacement.  The replacement arrived and I'm very happy with it.
642610
DOA...Windows gave a message saying the descriptor was bad and thus the unit was defective.  Guess I'll try a different brand
3785079
Some reviews mention problems with the board getting "bricked" by connecting it to your computer and Windows trying to communicate with bad drivers. Just make sure to download the Arduino IDE software package before connecting to USB, and you won't have a problem (read the review by farcow from May 19, 2014. He or she is exactly right. Mine worked just fine. I left four stars only because the packaging was pretty lousy for such a delicate device (came in a sealed static bag, which was inside a padded envelope. There were three pins bent, which really wasn't a major problem. I just bent them back, but that shouldn't happen.)
2248464
I purchased this unit based on the ratings here, which I can only assume now were generated by Brite-View Staff. I received my CinemaTube and set it up. I updated the firmware as recommended by the Brite-View Support Site (more on this later). The update went fine, and the box rebooted, at which point the system prompted me to update firmware again ... to the firmware I had just updated from. It actually wanted me to downgrade firmware! The CinemaTube prompted me to do this about every three minutes, regardless of what I was doing.

 I finally had to turn OFF my network setting on the CinemaTube, pretty much invalidating a major reason I bought it (which was to stream movies from my HTPC Box.

 This was the first of many, MANY issues with the CinemaTube, most of which have been identified on Brite-View's support forum and discussed for anywhere from three to SIX MONTHS, and have not been addressed by the engineers. Here are a few I noticed before I returned mine:

* The Copy File feature reboots the system when you try and create a new folder on an external USB Device.

* The Subtitles feature is so broken, you can't use them. They either do not work, fall off the bottom of the screen, etc.

* Connecting to the CinemaTube over the network is a study in frustration. Usually the connection will drop before you can copy a file reliably.

* The menus look like a 2nd Grade Art Class designed them. There are no Thumb views, or any type of views. Just Hierarchical menus which sometimes do not work.

* The "Preview Video" feature brings the whole system to it's knees, at which point you are unable to do anything for up to 2 minutes while the CinemaTube tries to play a preview video.

* Youtube support was removed.

* Some MP3 files will crash the box, causing a reboot. The same file may play fine later, while another MP3 you had previously listened to will suddenly reboot the box.

 The last issue I have is Support. THERE IS NONE! I looked through the Brite-View forums and saw issue after issue that had never been addressed or resolved. There was also one firmware release over the last 4 months which did not resolve ANY of the long standing problems. It actually caused more problems (the firmware loop, MP3 problems, Video Preview, Wireless issues, etc..)

 I bought an O!Play and a WD Live HD .. these are both super solid products, cost the same, and have a more mature dev team for support. The Open Source firmware on the WD box was a nice plus. Do yourself a favor: PASS ON THE CINEMATUBE!
4150526
Unfortunately, this router was dead right out of the box.

After turning it on for the first time tonight, the green power indicator light continually blinked. According to the Netgear technical support representative, this indicated a defective firmware issue.

The rep had me download the tftp2.exe program and the latest firmware WNDR4500-V1.0.1.20_1.0.40.zip. The firmware successfully updated, but did not fix the issue. After powering off the router and back on again, the green power indicator light still blinked. The rep then "recommended I return it to the store where I purchased it from" and thank me for "choosing Netgear and have a goodnight". Nice....

How very disappointing. I am going to look at another router from another vendor. Please be warned the router being sold on Amazon is the older version 1 and not the newest version 2 (with firmware 1.0.0.26).

***** Update 2/22/2013 *****

I decided to do a little web searching about this issue and found a user posted comment that I used to fix the router. I am happy to report the router mentioned above is up and running! These are exactly the steps I followed to fix the router issue.

 Please Note These Steps Are For Windows 7 or 8:

 1. Open the Control Panel and click on Programs and Features.
 2. From the side menu, click on 'Turn Windows features on or off'.
 3. Click on the box by TFTP Client and click on the OK button to install the TFTP client. Close the Control Panel.
 4. Go to [...] and download the latest firmware zip file (Use another computer or plug your computer directly into your cable modem to access the Internet).
 5. Unzip the contents of this .zip file to its own folder... Example C:\Firmware
 6. Click run and type ncpa.cpl to open the Network Connections window. Right click on your Local Area Connection adapter or Ethernet adapter and click on Properties.
 7. Click on Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IP)... Remember 4, not 6 and then choose Properties.
 8. Choose 'Use the following IP address' and type in the IP address of 192.168.1.1 and click on the Subnet Mask field... It should auto-populate with 255.255.255.0. Leave everything else blank and click OK and OK again.
 9. Open a command prompt by typing CMD at the run command or searching for CMD.
 10. In the command prompt window, type C:, press Enter, and then cd\(name of the folder you unzipped the firmware to) .... Example cd\Firmware. You should arrive at c:\firmware
 11. Type this exactly with indicated spaces tftp -i 192.168.1.1 put WNDR4500-V1.0.1.20_1.0.40.chk and then press enter. Note: Replace WNDR4500-V1.0.1.20_1.0.40.chk with the actual name of your .chk file if you downloaded a newer firmware version.
 12. WATCH your Router and Do Nothing Until the Power light turns solid green. Wait a few seconds longer, then power off your router, wait 10 seconds and power it back on again.

 The router should be working great now! I will try this router for a few days and see if I like it before I cancel my return request and give it more stars (won't be 5 even if it works great since I had to go through the hassle of doing the above steps to use a brand new out of the box router! grrrrrrrr)

***!*!*!*!*!*!* UPDATE 4/21/2013 ***!*!*!*!*!*!*

Well, it was a great router while it was powered on, but I had to finally return it to Netgear. Every time the damn thing lost power (either by a power outage or pushing the power button), it would turn back on with a blinking power light and the above steps always didn't work.... Sometimes I had to push the reset button continually during several sequences of powering it off and then on again and then leaving the router powered off for a while. To hell with that, I just returned the damn thing.

Word of Warning - If your router comes bricked (blinking power light), just return it immediately and get your money back! If you do get it to recover, test it out by pushing its power button and then turning it back on or pulling the power cord to simulate a power outage.

I am very disappointed!
2903978
It was DOA so was returned for a refund, something I should add Amazon excelled in with its excellent customer service.

Bottom line, it was a no 1 disappointment so cannot be recommended.  You might be lucky and buy one that worksd, or you might mirror my experience.

BTW the one star rating is more than it deserves!
4326992
My unit (a "basic black enclosure") was DOA. Not worth the bother to return it so I'm SOL. Avoid like the plague.
3454275
Just got the product today and finally completed setting it up on my Apple-based home network, with it plugged into my Airport Extreme router via ethernet.  Setup was frustrating, to say the least.  I downloaded the software and hooked up the drive exactly as directed.  I was supposed to wait for a blue light on the front, but the indicator was a white light its a bluish tinge that never went really "blue", so I thought, oh, that must be "WD's idea of "blue".  Anyway, I downloaded and installed the software on my Mac Air.  It found the device, but setup configuration would not complete despite multiple attempts, and I ended up each time getting a "there is a problem" message.  I was getting ethernet lights on both the device and my router, and figured there might be some other issue.  Tried configuring this drive on my iPhone, but the installation would just hang and not do anything.

I was about to box this thing up and send it back, after numerous searches on the web for help with this issue.  Finally I thought "let me install on my Windows PC and see if that works".  Well, it did solve the issue.  I still got error messages that I might not be able to read/write to the drive during software installation, but the software completed installing this time, I was able to register the product, set up my MyCloud account, and the software ran diagnostics and said my device was OK - but said I needed a firmware update and prompted me to download.  The firmware update took quite a few minutes, but installed successfully, and my device rebooted with a solid really BLUE light.

I looked in Finder on my Mac, and there was listed my new WD Cloud drive, finally.

I then proceeded to successfully and quickly install the software on both of my Macs without issue.  I initially thought the device might be defective, because I have another device connected to the same router via ethernet that works fine, and I even tried the same port.  Turns out issue was likely the firmware update and buggy Mac installation program.  I am a bit disappointed in WD that it was this difficult, since I've loved and used their products for many years.  I had no issue with the Seagate drive I connected via USB to the same router.

Speeds are OK, but not extremely fast.  I would not attempt to do an initial backup on this over the network, as it would take forever, but the smaller maintenance backups would probably work fine.  Thought this be a lot faster than my USB Seagate drive, wince the WD is ethernet connected, but it's not.  I'll do more tinkering and some tests to see if I can improve things.
197865
Everybody seems to bitch about how it's DOA or there's something wrong,

I've had this tablet for quite a while now and everything's running perfectly fine. Just don't install malicious programs and everything's okay
3275845
DOA... It does not work. I am sending it back and buying a different one.
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********** IMPORTANT NOTE ************
This review was written for the Mediagate HD-350 media player. I don't know how it and the other reviews here became associated with some mini industrial keyboard I've never seen.

Amazon staff: please fix the database!
**************************************

Installation and setup was easy. Adding a hard drive was a breeze. The picture is nice, the user interface is intuitive, although the remote control is of poor quality. The biggest problem is the firmware; software quality control seems to have been a low priority on this product.

The system came with firmware version 1.0.8 installed. Upgrading to 1.1.2 solved some of the bugs, and added some nice features, but some serious flaws remain. The most serious problem is with some Divx formats; when played from the HDD, the "Loading..." icons remains on screen, controls are disabled, and the video plays for 30 minutes or so before freezing. The only option at that point is to power cycle the unit. When the same file is played across the wireless network, the problem disappears, but video can become quite choppy.

The latest firmware version allows almost all MP3 files I tried to play properly, but some JPG pictures still cause the unit to crash. Again, the only way out of those is a power cycle.

Fast-forward and rewind functions take some practice to operate, as they tend to overshoot, probably due to buffering. Audio volume levels are inconsistent--watch out the first time you try an iRadio station!

For what this unit costs, I would buy it if only as an audio server. If you're looking for a reliable video player, I would wait until the bugs are fixed, or look for a better product.

July 2007 update: Version 1.1.3 fixes more problems and adds an FTP server function. Loading speed is also improved, but fast-forwarding an HD movie or trying to return to a bookmark will still often cause the system to freeze up.

October 2007 update: Version 1.1.7 fixes yet more issues with HD files and FTP functions. System crashes are now rare, although the unit still can take a minute to synchronize after fast forwarding through a high-def video. It's good to see the manufacturer is serious about fixing the bugs and improving the unit.

February 2009 update: After two years and several more firmware updates (I'm at version 1.1.11 now), I've finally given up. It is clear the device will never support the popular H.264 format. The latest revisions added yet more features which, to me, are useless, but there has been no improvement in handling the fast forward responsiveness issue, or adding support for more formats. With devices supporting H.264 now selling for under $100, I think the MG-350 has reached the end of its useful life. True, those $100 devices aren't wireless (yet), but transferring a 2GB file across the wireless connection has never been a very practical approach, and I always ended up connecting the unit directly to copy files. The company now offers a new model, but I'd be reluctant to try their products again.
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Cured the HDCP issues I was having running my macbook pro through my Denon receiver.  I shouldn't need a workaround for this; it should just work.  But since I do need a workaround, I'm glad there is one!