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Philips avent Digital Screen Baby Monitor w/ DECT Technology | 
 enlarge | Brand: Philips Avent
Category: Baby Product
List Price: $149.99
Buy New: $120.00
You Save: $29.99 (20%)
New (4) from $120.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 460
Color: White
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6
Dimensions (in): 12.1 x 5.3 x 7.4
MPN:
Model: SCD520/00
UPC: 075020005465
EAN: 0075020005465
ASIN: B001COPE86
Release Date: October 21, 2008
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| Features:
| • | Zero Interference DECT Technology | | • | Crystal clear sound | | • | Room temperature sensor and lullabies | | • | Sleek parent unit | | • | Simple to use and easily mobile |
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Product Description
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| Customer Reviews:
 No static, I'll give it that November 17, 2008
I'll start by saying that maybe this unit is a dud?
Postive:
RANGE: is fine, clear, no problems there. I was able to go outside and at 100 yards still ok. The base is inside the house, and the house has alum. siding.
TALK BACK: the ability to talk from the parent unit to the base is nice and works ok. My daughter thought it was nice that daddy could talk to her from the other room.
Not so good:
1) Volume: With the volume full up on the parent unit and the sensitivity at max, still could not hear my daughter over the TV that was in our room. The TV was at a low level, my wife and I could talk back and forth from 6 feet away, at a normal volume. The parent unit was just not loud enough. I don't have to hear my child breath, but if I wanted to, this unit would not do it either.
2) Display:
Reads easy in full light, but in a dimly lit room or dark, the blue back light comes on and washes the display out, can't read it. The unit needs a contrast button or something?
3) Temp reading:
Off by about 6 degrees, on the high side. I really don't care it's just a reading and I could learn what is normal. (Had three therms in the room, same table, the base said 77, the other two therms 69 and 71)
4) AC/DC adapter, I noticed while putting together that the plug, to plug into the Base and Parent charger base, are different. Not sure what the point is since the output of the transformers are identical? I just figure why complicate things if you don't need to, use the same plug on both.
Overall the range is great and I'm almost tempted to keep it just because of that, I hate monitors that drop and get static. However since the volume is not loud enough it's going back. I could live with reasons 2,3,4, but I have to be able to hear it.
Maybe the unit I have is not quite right? I'm replacing a 2.5 year old Graco Digital Deluxe Baby Monitor, that used to work well, but not locking on the base like it used to. It has two parent units, which is nice, but they have been dropped so many times I think they are shot. As far as comparing the current Graco to the Philips: Philips is better in range and signal lock. The Graco is better on volume and sensitivity. I'll probably just replace the Graco with the same model again and see how that goes.
 Finally! November 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I hated my old monitor (which was not a cheap one) because of the static, muffled sounds, and general inability to keep a signal from the babies room to my bedroom. Many a night as it beeped at me I wanted to throw the thing out the window.
I gave in and decided to spend some real money and hoped that my frustrations would be solved. And, they are!
I waited for the new Avent monitor after reading the mixed reviews about the old one and I am very glad I did. The big issue that people had on the old model was that the unit was not loud enough. Parents complained that at full volume they still couldn't hear if their kid was still breathing. That problem has been solved. I have no problem hearing every breath. You can control the sensitivity of the parent's unit - so it can be on all the time, or if it quiets down, you don't hear a single noise out of the unit. No static, no beeping, no hum from the cordless phone - pure brilliant silence.
My child is older now, so I have the sensitivity low enough that unless she starts crying I won't hear her. If she turns over in the bed, I hear nothing. But, when I have another baby I am sure I will crank it all the way up to hear every little breath.
The unit allows me to talk to the babies room - which I thought was a bit silly. But, I don't use the function to talk to the kid (she is still confused as to why she hears her dad's voice from the bookshelf) - I use it to talk to my wife. "Do you know where the clean socks are?" - "yes- in the bottom drawer" - and I never left the master bedroom to help!
It has a music feature (which you can't control from the parent's unit). A night light feature (which isn't really bright enough to be of use). And it has a page function if you lose the parent's unit.
Long story short, great unit - worth the $. If you want to actually enjoy the baby monitor experience - this is the one for you. I can finally sleep in peace.
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