 smart portable and zoom is good |
| Review Date: June 22, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Quang Tran, Fairfield, Ca United States |
| I didn't have any of the problems that others have reported. pic quality is a about a 7 of 10 compare to a $400 lorex unit so I don't see a negative here. range is as good as the expensive lorex that I also own at about 150 feet throughout my house of 2 stories. zoom has better pic quality than full view which is strange for digital units. design is smart and light. others might have set the timer to turn the unit of without knowing. please read the manual if you are not sure. I didn't have to refer to the manual because the unit itself is so simple to use. |
The best I have tried so far
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| Review Date: December 10, 2007 |
| Reviewer: T. Kelley, |
Note: The bar is not high when it comes to video baby monitors, however from what I can see and what I have tried so far, this has worked the best for us.
Pro's:
Not many interference issues.
Video is decent enough to figure out what the baby is doing
Range seems to be good
not as clunky as some other models
Con's:
the unit doesn't go "completely" quite when there is no noise
it looses the video once and a while
battery life is so so
Other notes: I had tried a 2.4ghz model before this one and there was a lot of interference with it. The video looked good, however the audio would have keep us up all night. With this unit we can sleep with it on the bed stand and have no problems hearing the baby. Overall, it is the most compact and interference free video monitor I have tried.
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Basic video monitor, Could be better.
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| Review Date: June 10, 2009 |
| Reviewer: J. Tong, Savannah, GA |
This monitor uses the 2.4ghz range, but still has a pretty short range for the audio, and even shorter range for the video.
Video quality is reasonable, a bit washed out. The NIGHT video is not very good with range (maybe 6 feet visible range), and it has brightish RED leds that shines at the child and I can see that creeping some kids out. An IR LED for night time does NOT need to be visible to the child.
Video drops out regularly with a Ding!Ding! warning which gets pretty annoying over time when you are at the range of the video, which in our house is about 45 feet (2 rooms). Audio reception is almost twice that.
Even in the adjacent room, connection drops out regularly through the night which causes the 'DING DING' waking us up.
The audio is reasonable, but wierd because there is a 2 second delay, Not because we care that there is a 2 second delay, but we can just hear the original cry and then the monitor echoes it which is a pretty creepy effect at night.
One more annoyance is that the sound controls are not very gradiated. Even on the quietest setting it's too loud for a quiet room and every snort gets amplified. We duct taped the speaker hole and that helped.
Battery time for us is about 2-3 hours with occasional video. Enough for a nap, but you'll want to leave it plugged in otherwise.
The parent unit IS amazingly portable, however the drawback is that it's not built nearly as robustly as other graco products. A minor drop from our toddler's hands popped out the OLED screen cover. Another got the video all wacky.
I wouldn't recommend it for retail price, Check out the SUMMER brand video products, but in a pinch it'll do if you can find it on clearance.
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Probably will return this . . .
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| Review Date: October 23, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Emell, Boston, MA |
This product basically does what I want - allows me to watch/hear my sleeping child w/o ever having to go into her room to check on her. But I feel it should have much better functionality.
I have the same complaints as many of the others here. The image is kind of crappy; the sound quality is rotten (my 2 yr old usu talks to herself b4 falling asleep, and I cannot understand very much of what she is saying with this thing, and I hate to miss her charming conversations with herself. The older Sony "sound only" monitor I have gives us really crisp audio.) The 2 second delay between "real time" sound and motion and what you get on the display is really annoying to me. And I feel I deserve a longer battery life when the parent unit is fully charged. The CS people at the Graco 800 # told me 4 hours, but that has NOT been my experience. I say 2.5-3, max. The CS person with whom I spoke, BTW, seemed really disinterested in my issues, almost as if she had heard it all a hundred times before . . . I'm sure she has. |
A Total Waste of Money - Rated No Stars
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| Review Date: December 13, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Jason S. Sypher, |
| I bought this monitor and find it completely useless. Firstly, the screen for viewing is very, very small. The picture quality is awful, all you see is a kind of murky outline of your baby. The scope of what the camera picks up is very small, I cannot get the whole crib in the picture no matter how hard I try. I even put the camera on the ceiling looking down and I still can't see the whole crib. Last night in the middle of the night it started buzzing and then ran out of battery power. Apparently it can't even last a typical 8 or 9 hour night. I had it hooked up to the charger all day and when I went to turn it on tonight it lasted about 10 minutes. Now, on my baby's second night alone in his room and I have nothing to monitor him. I can't imagine what they were thinking releasing this product under their name and came up with a $200 price tag. Totally irresponsible false advertising. |
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