Current version shipping is DOA. Look at recent 1 star reviews.
596936
This product, AT LEAST THE VERSION THEY'RE SHIPPING now, does not work:

I bought this product ~2 years ago for a customer that was looking for an alternative to regular IR repeaters, at that point the device worked exactly as advertised. The device failed suddenly (stopped transmitting IR from the attached IR blaster) Hmmmm... So, to be on the safe side I ordered an entire new unit. Same problem. The device receives the EM signal from the battery compartment on the remote, but fails to successfully energize the IR blaster. I'm not sure if this is a faulty blaster or it's internal, I guess I could take it apart and tell you exactly, but, i'm pretty sick of this thing at the moment! I'm going to return to a more traditional arrangement. Shame, because this was a one of a kind product that has obviously been missing Q.C. entirely. DO NOT BUY THIS DEVICE!
3896305
Not gonna even try to RMA it....too much trouble for the low cost.  But beware of this item from this shipper....unless you live in Brazil, North Korea, Japan, etc....will not work on you machine.  It's a standard the US does not use called PAL.  Dang....and I wanted this movie!
2474523
I received the player and it started up quickly and setup was a breeze.  It definitely boots a lot faster than my magnovox blu-ray player that I got a year+ ago.  I decided to update the firmware (forgetting that others had issues w/ said update).  Well, everything seemed to be going well until the player rebooted and then just sat at a blank white/blue screen for several minutes.  I tried unplugging the unit for a couple minutes and power it up again to no avail.  I am returning for a replacement unit and will not update the player's firmware this time and will give an update of first impressions of a working unit w/o update.  So for now, I give it two stars since it seems like panasonic does not seem to care to pull the 1.33 firmware from their update site.  I would not be too happy if I was Amazon with all the shipping charges that they are incurring due to this issue.
1280624
The Problem is Simply Gigabyte, The product worked initially for 4 months. then the dreaded reboot loop killing a $150 HDD. So minus $150 right off the bat. 1st RMA (month 4) sent it in (-$18 shipping) received it back 3 weeks later. This time it worked for 3 months so second RMA request it took 5 weeks for the RMA approval and to recieve my RMA number only after repeated calls to gigabyte support (-$18 shipping). Received the 3rd board guess what DOA!!!! Yes my friends worst product and company! Congrats Gigabyte you have lost a lifetime customer. so for those keeping track I bought this originally for around $95, lost a $150 HDD 2 rounds of $18 shipping and 2 months of downtime....Grand total $281 LOST because I chose Gigabyte instead of asus.

To Gigabyte, Please stop ripping off your customers and Please Try to have some sort of QOS in the future!
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
2734652
It might have worked if this was my problem. It wasnt, so it's now a paperweight. You provide a shipping label and it's yours. Do your research and testing first!
3558539
Mine was DOA. Just returned. Would have loved it though. It's a great size.
2741828
Mine showed up DOA but I have had dealings with them in the past and they work well, minus points here for QC.
3546531
DOA.  The purchase of this product has resulted in a Trek of complete frustration.  After unpacking I never saw any signs of life from from a SSID broadcasts or pings to the LAN ports.  I performed the factory reset procedures and then spent a few days dealing with Netgear support. Although probably well meaning (but also kind of useless to me) Netgear tier 1 support just acted as a delaying tactic to the eventual conclusion that their tier 2 acknowledged - THE UNIT WAS DELIVERED DEAD.

I am now left with eating the cost of shipping back a dead unit. Netgear foisted the issue back onto the seller instead of offering a pre-paid shipping RMA like I believe would be warranted in this case. In the end Netgear has just wasted my time and money.

I would strongly suggest looking into the better rated alternatives like TP-LINK or HooToo to fulfill your travel router requirements.
3953350
If you're like me and got a one with a good screen (see screen issue reviews) -and- have the latest update installed - you should be in business, right?  ...and then there's the Audio issue.

I don't write reviews often, but there is a (little?) elephant in the room that needs to be addressed and I do not see it mentioned enough in most reviews.

As mentioned by quite a few other reviewers (mostly 1-Star) - there is a chopping "helicopter-like" background sound when you shoot video with the Wifi On. I have tested and can confirm true.

Example from YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsQgiUJnB2M
(*Note the number of comments on YouTube)

Does it matter?  Well, if you want record video and use Wifi at the same time it does. I think anyone who wants to use the app. as a remote at some point and cares about audio-track quality should care about this issue. I could think of multiple applications where I would want a clean soundtrack while using my phone/tablet to control the camera remotely. Maybe for others, not so much.

To the best of my knowledge the Hero 3+ does not produce the same sound while shooting video with Wifi On. So what happened, GoPro?

From what I gather - seems like ALL cameras are affected to some degree. While some report very light sound, others like in the video show a more noticeable one. I can certainly notice it with my camera. I do not think I (and so many others) am missing something but please let me know if I am.

I would like to know if this issue will be (or even CAN be) fixed via a future update?

For me, this might be a deal breaker. Like many others, I made my purchase on Black Friday weekend. I am going to see what the response from GoPro is and decide if to return mine before the 30 days are up. I would rather wait until this issue is fixed in a later version. Sorry GoPro, I am a fan but at a $300++ price point, I deserve a perfectly working camera.

Still a solid 3-Star camera, but wanted it to be 5-Star so bad!  Ski Season is almost in full swing.

Folks, Please  H e l p  By:

1. Using the comments below to chime in. Big questions are: Are truly all cameras affected? Did you check yours? -And- Deal-Breaker for you or Not?

And/ Or

2. Vote this review as `helpful' so it moves up and gets noticed- I'd love to get a response from GoPro on this issue!

I will update on top with any developments. Thx!
2002152
Buyer beware! It seems they have shipped this new version without any proper quality control. There is a large number of these pens that just won't work right out of the box. It seems that no quality control testing is done prior to shipping. There is a part, the "force sensing relay" that is known to be defective in many cases. There is a 5 second test that you can easily do at home to confirm that yours is broken but that this company is unwilling to do before they ship a pen. This does not inspire confidence in the product, the company or their ability to build a successful high tech device. A look at Livescribe's history show similar problems with previous products that were never fixed. I STRONGLY urge you to stay away.

Update 11/15/13:  The replacement pen also failed right out of the box. It has the same problem with the FSR. I followed all the troubleshooting steps and it still won't work. Very disappointing. Clearly not ready for prime time.

Update 11/17/13:  The replacement process is not going well. I emailed the special account that Livescribe has set up to deal with the high volume of failures. I included the pen type, serial number, my full name and all contact information. Two days later I received a reply asking for the pen serial number. I reminded them that I included the serial number in my first email along with all contact info and a shipping address. I then received a reply from Livescribe asking for my contact info and a shipping address..... Sigh. This company is clearly not a professional organization. I would have given up long ago if I didn't want this technology to work so badly.  If I ever get a working pen then I will update this review.
3825121
Crap.  Doa unit,  now I must pay to return it!
115670
One of the sticks arrived DOA. I'm sending it back, and I expect a full refund.
1713008
**2nd update 02/27/16**

Performance is degrading, doggy/laggy response. Frequent reboots to fix buggy performance. Poor update/patch cycle. Changing review to 2 stars from 4. Basically, "avoid" this device. Get something worth your money that actually works. Very disappointed in Asus.

**updated 09/24/15**

[snip]
569683
I bought the "2 fer the price of 1" units.  1 for me, 1 for my folks in New England so they can see my daughter via the video phone.  Seems like a good deal, right?  The 2 pairs arrived to me in the Midwest.  I kept one and shipped the other to New England.  My folks and I set up our units only to discover their unit is defective and does not power up when plugged in.  Great!  Terrific!  Now my folks have to repack and ship the defective unit to me.  I then have to re-repack it and send it with my working unit back to Amazon.  By the time we factor in all of the extra postage required for the returns and the forwarding this dual deal is hardly worth it.  We are going to try again and I've ordered a replacement pair.  I guess I'm a sucker.  Is it too much to expect this product to work?  Buyer beware.  And patient.
4072182
DOA. The manufacturer tech support confirmed it was defective, but since I didn't buy it directly from them, they won't help.
3469483
I ordered this in December of 2015 hoping it would have enough power to get WIFI throughout my 1-bedroom apartment. It did the job, but honestly, for the supposed power it was still a surprisingly weak signal in the bedroom (with the router 50 feet away in the living room). I tolerated it out of laze, but wish I hadn't.

I've since moved to a much bigger house, and now the router sits in my 1st floor office and signals barely carry to the 1st floor living room. It's really quite sad, we get intermittent connection drops and frequently less than 1 Mpbs downspeed despite my wired connection over 100 Mbps! I've tweaked the channels and the antennae positions but nothing really works.

I investigated the issue a bit and found out that by the time I purchased it, the unit had already received it's final firmware upgrade. My firmware is "the latest" but hasn't been updated by Linksys since Dec 2015, and it will remain that way. Apparently they know this model has issues, so the V1 version I ordered new was EOL in favor of the newer V2. None of this was apparent at the time, of course, but I am feeling pretty robbed in hindsight.

Seeing other reviews on Amazon I emailed 'linksyscares@linksys.com' to inquire about either upgrading the current version to either a new model (and paying some kind of exchange difference), or at least them replacing (under warranty) my slow v1 with a v2 model that has firmware receiving updates still. The first reply said, basically, "your unit is in warranty and we can swap it out". I inquired if they'd swap it out for a V1 (no point) or a V2 (I'd be interested in that as a bare minimum) and then the second reply said "oh sorry your unit is not in warranty so we cannot do that but we can, as a courtesy, have you talk to a tech".

I guess the email alias "linksys cares" is meant to be ironic? I don't want to spend hours troubleshooting an issue that seems to be related to the hardware (and now ever-aging f/w) on the v1. I've worked in IT. I've troubleshot this thing plenty. What I need is either the v2 unit with firmware that will continue getting updates, or to swap it for a new unit (which would be ideal). I'll give linksys a few more tries over email to make this right, otherwise despite almost 15 years of linksys wireless routers (dating back to the WRT54G) this will be my last.

Maybe it is time to give D-Link or Netgear a try...