Summer Infant Day & Night Handheld Color Video Monitor 1.8" Screen White | List Price: $179.99
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Brand: Summer Infant
Binding: Baby Product
Features: - Portable, handheld color video monitor allows you to see and hear baby from anywhere in your house.
- The small, lightweight receiver has a 1.8 inch color LCD Screen (black-and-white at night).
- 900 Mhz technology provides superior clarity and range.
- Rechargeable batteries in parent unit last up to 10 hours, or just use the included A/C adapter.
- Sound lights allow you to view baby's level of activity even when monitor screen is turned off.
HATE IT! [Posted on 2008-11-08]
I've had to deal with interference from the 1st day I used it, but after about 4 months, the screen burnt out. So now all i hear is static when i expected to hear and see my baby!
Color is questionable, but is a life saver for a two story house [Posted on 2008-11-09]
We've used this for 2 months now. Compared to audio only, I wouldn't think twice about purchasing this product. Not enough light for color, but b/w works really well for our two story house, especially in complete darkness. The video turns off to save power and when we see the audio bars hit yellow or red, turn on the video to investigate. Works like a champ.
This Summer handheld video monitor is better than the Graco handheld video monitor [Posted on 2008-11-20]
I bought both the Graco hand-held color video monitor and the Summer Infant Day & Night Handheld Color video hand-held monitor 1.8". I had to test each one alone (not both running at the same time, because they interfered with each other's reception). The Summer worked better as described below: They booth worked pretty well, but the Graco was not really showing the color, even in broad daylight next to a sunny window with bright colors on my test subject (my husband), whereas the Summer had great color. Also I asked him to take some deep breaths: Graco didn't show the movement in his chest, but the Summer monitor did. I walked across our house, out the garage, down the driveway, across the street, and into our neighbor's driveway with each hand-held monitor. The Graco lost reception at the garage door of our house (about half a soccer field length away). The Summer still had reception at our neighbor's drive way (about one soccer field away from the video monitor). We have wireless internet and 5.8 GHz phones and had no interception problems with either monitor. I would not have been unsatisfied with the Graco, but the Summer was much better. I didn't give the Summer a 5 star rating because always, even in the room just below the video monitor, the sound quality was like white noise, rather than quiet, AND because occasionally there is a split second "blip" of the screen, but not often. I gave the Graco a 3 star rating and the Summer a 4 star rating. I was content with either one, but much preferred the Summer (though it too was not perfect).
Note: our house is new and has lots of wires in the walls. My friend brought her video monitor over to try (one that she loves in her much older but also quite big house) and I had absolutely no reception with it, even in the room just below the monitor. So, I think my house has lots of obstacles to get through, for these monitors, and it's a 5K sq. ft. house. Her video monitor has no name brand on it anywhere, so we don't know what brand it is, but it's about 4 years old in Nov. 2008.
Don't buy if you stay in an apartment complex [Posted on 2008-11-21]
When I received the product and opened it to set it up, I was quite happy with the build quality and the overall finish of this device. I powered on the camera and then the hand-held monitor and I was amazed that it indeed had a very nice image of the crib area you point it at.
Then I powered OFF the camera and kept the hand-held monitor powered ON. Thats when I saw someone else's baby in his/her crib. The device comes with 2 channels, so I flipped from one channel to the other and to my surprise there was someone else's baby on the other channel. You can even listen to what the people around the transmitter are talking about. Since the transmitter uses 900Mhz signal to transmit the information over the air, and only has 2 channels, if you stay in a apartment complex or a highly populated area where houses are close-by, there is a chance that someone else might have this item and they can watch/hear what your camera transmits and vice versa.
When you power on your own camera, the signal from your camera is the strongest and hence you will only see your baby in your monitor. But if you want privacy and do not want your neighbors to know what you are talking about and what your baby is doing, better stay away from this monitor.
The best monitor [Posted on 2008-11-22]
We did a lot of reviews on monitors. This one is fabulous. It gives me the peace of mind throughout the night. My son makes a lot of noise in his sleep. This allows me to hear him but check the screen to see if he is awake to eat or if he is just making noise in his sleep. I love this product.
It does get interference like most products that are wireless etc. I find that if you it is plugged in and you get interference, wiggle the connection a little and it stops. It is just in a bad position. If it is not plugged in, just move it to another spot and it will stop. It is not bad at all. You will not find a monitor that does not get interference because of the waves that are required to make it work. This product is worth ever cent.
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