Product review (3 stars): Looks great, works well enough
Overall this hood is pretty decent given the price and my circumstances.  It works as well as more expensive ones and it looks very unique at the same time.  At first I thought the remote was kind of a pointless addition, however, the touch buttons on the face of the hood are not very responsive to touch and so I find myself using the remote more often since it has regular buttons that click.  I found that if I press and held my finger on the button SOMETIMES I could get the hood to respond.  Think less modern iphone and more blackberry touchscreens circa 2005.  Can be frustrating, would be intolerable without the remote.

Functionality wise, it does its job.  On the high setting it does make some noise, but its not too loud and at that speed it is sucking a good bit of air.  The lights on the bottom are OK.  They do light up my stove, but they aren't exceptionally bright so I wouldn't want to rely on them as the sole source of light over the stove-top.  I have yet to see if replacing them with higher wattage bulbs is an option, but that could fix the issue.  There is a feature that supposedly turns the hood on automatically when it senses heat rising from the stove-top, but I only tried to test that once and it didn't seem to turn on.  I might have needed to wait longer or reposition my pot to the back burner.  I will update if I get that to work, but it wasn't really a selling point for me.  I didn't even know it was part of the options until I read what the mystery button does in the instruction manual.

My biggest issue was the hood is not very deep overall.  By that I mean, I have a freestanding range/oven and the front two burners are barely covered by the range hood.  When the fan is on high, it does however suck most of the steam/smoke up into the vent, but on the lower settings it is not so efficient at venting.  If you use the back burners or if you have an installed stove-top that is shallower, this is obviously not much of an issue on any speed.

Attaching it to the wall was easy enough, but that was because I had the hood in hand in advance of my drywall going up and so I was able to built a 2x4 structure exactly where the screws needed to be.  The hood only mounts hanging from two screws and they aren't 16" apart, so don't expect to mount this to drywall with a couple of screws or the junk NAILS they included.  The "instructions" show hammering nails into bricks using the included white plastic anchors, which look kind of like drywall anchors but are smooth and are complete garbage.  I WOULD NOT ADVISE ANYONE TO USE THE INCLUDED HARDWARE FOR MOUNTING.  Go buy heavy duty lag screws, 3 inches would be ideal and you need to grab wood or concrete behind the mounting points.  They included rubber feet, I am guessing to dampen vibrations against the wall, but they only included TWO?!  It has four points of contact, so really it needs FOUR rubber feet to sit flush against the wall and effectively reduce vibrations.

It comes with a nice long plug and an easy to use flexible vent hose, about 6" radius if I recall correctly.  I was actually able to use that directly from the top of the unit and stretch it through the ceiling and into the attic where the flange for the roof vent was, so that's about 6 feet or more.  The metal shroud covers that nest into each other look good but are noticeably cheap.  Once it is all installed they look fine, but getting them installed was a pain.  There is a metal bracket that you have to attach to the wall at the exact right height then blindly fumble with two small screws (once you slide the shroud up) to attach the top to the bracket.  Its a bit of a trying task, and was made easier by the help of a second set of hands.  Also, the non-rolled corners of the steel are VERY SHARP.  So wear gloves for that part of the process.

Pros:
~ Looks great installed and fits well with my black/brown ikea cabs
~ Works pretty well at all the speeds (would function better in my situation if my stove was shallower so that is my own problem)
~ Simple to mount to the wall IF you are down to studs, otherwise it could get pretty tricky
~ Comes with a long cord and a long flexible hose that reaches at least 6'

Cons:
~ The instructions are a joke, written in broken English and are laughably unhelpful.  I am writing this without the manual on hand otherwise I would provide examples.
~ The included mounting hardware is worthless, you cant hang something heavy from nails driven into brick or drywall
~ Mounting the shroud is tough
~ The buttons have confusing images on them and the ones on the hood itself don't function well with touch.
~ Clock can ONLY be set to military time...kind of annoying to look at 23:47 without being able to change that.

Overall, if you are starting from scratch (bare studs) like I was, you can make this hood work pretty easily.  If you are remodeling and not taking down drywall, make sure to carefully plan ahead so you can get some wood studs behind the hood.  I would have loved to rate this higher, but there are just too many annoying issues and for someone with less construction experience these would be very troubling.  See my pictures for finished installation with Ikea cabinets.