VTech 7″ Baby Monitor with IPS Screen, Pan Tilt Zoom Camera, No WiFi Video Baby Monitor with Camera and Audio, Multi-Color Night Light, 2-Way Talk, Lullabies, Advanced HQ Max

buy without thinking
I don’t often write reviews on products, but this one is fantastic. The image and sound quality are excellent. It’s 100 times better than the baby monitor I bought for $250 before. I love that it works while charging. The retractable camera is very useful. The image is very clear. I haven’t had any connection issues even at the farthest corners of the house. It’s very easy to use, and the screen is very large. The color quality is excellent. Another feature I like is that it measures the room temperature. It’s very useful to know where my baby sleeps and adjust the room temperature accordingly. The quality never decreases when using the zoom feature. I bought the HQ Screen 7, and although I’ve paid high prices for other cameras before, I realized they were worse than this one. It’s both affordable and very high quality and useful. I definitely recommend it.

Video and audio work well
Use this to keep an eye on my mother when she has gone to sleep and I am elsewhere in the apartment getting housework done. The only issue I have is signal strength, but that has to do with the layout of the apartment. It has been in daily use, about 4 to 5 hours each night, for 2.5 years. No issues with battery but I do keep both the camera and monitor plugged in because I find reception is better in places where the signal strength is weak when the monitor is unplugged. They work well, both video and audio, and are very useful.

Edited: Downgraded from poor to terrible
This is my second video monitoring system, the first being a Summer Infant Day and Night that we purchased in 2010 when our first child was born. The Summer Infant model was (and still is) excellent. The picture and sound quality are both great, and reliable. But, as luck has it, that model is not expandable, and we’re expecting our second child, so we decided to switch to a model that supported multiple cameras. In terms of rave reviews and features, I should have gone with one of the Motorola models, but I was amazed by the bundle of features for the price with VTech, and took the bait. We bought this system and one extra camera, and went to work setting them up at home in the nursery, and in the toddler’s room.First, the picture quality is NOT GOOD. Compared to the Summer Infant, it’s a joke, especially the night vision. Luckily my son has dark hair or I’d never be able to GUESS where he was in the picture. If you need crisp images, do not get this model. We’re making do so far, as we can mostly tell where the toddler is in the picture, but it’s terrible.Second, the sound quality and reliability is NOT GOOD. The Summer Infant has crisp, continuous sound. The VTech sound is tinny at best, and interference interrupts it every couple of seconds, in no particular pattern. Moreover, the sound seems to turn itself OFF all the time. I’ve been able to jog it back on by using the “Talk” feature to say something over the intercom to my son, and then the sound kicks back on awaiting his response. Again, we’re using it for him, but it’s terrible.We have not used this yet for a newborn, and it’s quite likely that we won’t. We still have our old Summer Infant, and unless the sound is continuous and the close-up picture is much better (the newborn camera will only be pointed at a crib, whereas the toddler camera is mounted up high for a (poor quality) view of the whole room) we’ll probably use the Summer Infant for the newborn, as I’m not messing around with an unreliable system for a new baby. If we end up going that route, I’ll mount the extra VTech camera in toddler’s room for added viewer angles, as we can’t see the whole room with one camera, and I’ll just tote around both parent units, one for each child.If I had known I was going to have to do that, I’d just have purchased another Summer Infant Day and Night.Morale of the story: if I had this to do over, I wouldn’t have made this choice. The product is trash compared to Motorola or Summer Infant. However, it does do the job (just badly), and it has a bundle of nice features (temperature monitoring, lullabies (that my son hates), zoom (but NOT pan! and the zoom just pixellates the already terrible picture quality), and multiple camera support. VTech seemed to try really hard to throw a lot into this for a low price, but forgot the two most important features: sound quality/reliability and picture quality.Sadly, one and a half thumbs down.EDIT: June, 2013 – Well, my dissatisfaction turned quickly into disgust. Other reviewers have lamented the nonexistent customer service at Vtech: HEED THEM. Our second wasn’t born until April, and has been in our room, so we haven’t really needed to USE this system until very recently. We had set it up and ensured the camera angles were appropriate prior to her birth, but hadn’t used the system. Even so, somehow, this camera inexplicably broke. The transformer (the box-part of the plug) has evidently blown: instead of having subpar video and audio, it now has ZERO video and audio. The parent unit doesn’t read the camera at all, instead eternally waiting for connection. And the camera unit makes a loud popping noise from the camera itself every three seconds if it is powered on. It cannot be powered off anymore without unplugging it — the power button now only works one way: to turn on. So, to recap: with LESS THAN A DAY OF USE, the camera unit does not transmit video, does not transmit audio, does not turn off, and makes loud noises. In other words, this is worse than zero stars. This is negative stars. They should be paying US for housing these annoying products.BUT IT GETS BETTER (read: worse). I contacted VTech, stumbled through their ridiculous online contact template (that doesn’t seem to even anticipate receiving product failure communications) and filed my concern, asking for a refund, a replacement, an extra part (the camera itself doesn’t need replacing, only the power cord…with a new power cord it would be back to functioning as a less than mediocre piece of 1990s video equipment, but it would at least WORK). VTech’s website assured me I would be contacted within two days.That was almost four weeks ago. That’s right. Four weeks of radio silence. I’m about to contact them for the THIRD time, but this company goes beyond all other bad reviews I’ve ever read, ever. It’s not that they refuse to accept responsibility, don’t warrant the product, charge the customer shipping. They might do all those things. But who knows? The company seems to collectively hide under the table whenever the phone rings, and, without being able to reach them, the consumer is completely up a creek.I’ve written many reviews. I’ve NEVER had to write one like this.Buyer beware.

Deze babycamera werd mij aangeraden door vrienden. Het is echt een game-changer voor ouders die hun kleintje veilig en rustig willen laten slapen, terwijl ze tegelijkertijd een oogje in het zeil houden. De installatie was super eenvoudig.Wat ik vooral waardeer is de heldere beeldkwaliteit, zelfs in het donker. Zo kan ik de baby goed in de gaten houden, zelfs als het licht uit is. Het geluid is ook van goede kwaliteit, wat voor veel gemoedsrust zorgt.Een ander pluspunt is de tweerichtingscommunicatie. Het is zo fijn om tegen mijn baby te praten of zelfs een slaapliedje te zingen, zonder dat ik de kamer hoef in te gaan. Daarnaast is de camera stevig en voelt hij betrouwbaar aan, wat belangrijk is als het gaat om de veiligheid van je kind.Het is een uitstekende investering en ik zou het absoluut aanraden aan andere ouders! Ik ben ontzettend tevreden met de aankoop!

Dejo mi reseña original abajo, pero ahora, después de CUATRO años de uso, puedo decir que estoy muy contenta con el monitor. CUATRO años, dos hijos y múltiples caídas después, el monitor sigue funcionando. Es cierto que a veces se cae la señal, pero la recupera. La imagen es buena. Nos ha servido enormemente. SI LO COMPRARÍA DE NUEVO y lo recomiendo a todos mis amigos.Me atrajo a este producto las buenas reseñas que tenía de otros usuarios. Sin embargo, estoy decepcionada. La imagen es buena. La batería del monitor está bien… no dura muchísimo, pero lo suficiente. Lo que me decepciona enormemente es el alcance de la señal – dice creo que 300 metros. Esto es un engaño. En el departamento se me cae la señal, y no vivo en una mansión. Quise darle una oportunidad a este monitor porque pensé que era bueno por todas las opiniones positivas, y desafortunadamente se me pasó el tiempo que tenía para devolverlo. No lo compraría de nuevo.