Review by Meal : Great Baby Monitor - Decent Lorex Product

This is my 5th Lorex system. The first one, I broke by carrying around and subsequently dropping. The second one, my babysitter broke and I don't know how. The 3rd AND 4th one - the monitor charger parts broke off entirely too easily. However, Lorex has finally done a decent job. The biggest tip I can give anyone interested in this monitor is DO NOT carry it around or leave it where it might get knocked. It's sensitive and extremely breakable, like carting around a tiny LCD TV.Please don't take my long "con" list the wrong way, I do LOVE this system!! I just like to be thorough.Pros: 1) It worked right out of the box. 2) I can see my daughter when I need to without having to enter her room and risk her seeing me, provoking a "momma momma" screaming fit. 3) There are no weird parts on the charger that will break off. 4) It gives me her room temperature. 5) Night vision is great. 6) It wakes me up when she wakes up in the middle of the night. 7) It tells me when the battery is low. 8) It tells me when the signal is low. 9) It's fun to play with the "talk" button and watch her try to figure out how she can hear me although I'm not there. 10) It gives me peace of mind when I wake up at 2 am and want to look to see if she is still in bed. 12) Pretty great picture.Cons: 1) The charging base is very small, it does not encase the base of the monitor - I hope it doesn't get knocked down. 2) The video monitor screen is small, but bigger than the old Lorex systems. 3) It takes a while to get use to the "alarm" beeping when the camera detects movement or noise, but if you take time to adjust the camera sensitivity, it's much better. 4) It doesn't work from far away, but my house is small so it's a non-issue for me - if you have a 3,000 sq ft house you may not get good reception. 5) Old Lorex cameras will not work with the system, you must purchase Live Sense cameras. 6) It started beeping every 60 seconds and was driving me bananas, there were no troubleshooting tips and I was ready to return it within 24 hours. In frustration, I pushed buttons on the side of the monitor and it suddenly stopped. 7) The Skype & iPhone feature isn't very good. You only get a partial & grainy view, plus you need 2 skype accounts to make it work. Not very intuitive. 8) Learn very well where the buttons are - so you don't accidentally press the button which blasts Brahms Lullaby through the camera at 11 pm and wake your kid up (like I did).In summary... for the price, the good outweighs the bad. Much cheaper than a full security system; if you treat it right, it will last and you will love it too!

Review by Wendy R. Davenport "wendyrashelle" : Worth the Money!

For the first year we used the Sony Baby Call Baby Monitor - 900MHZ which worked well but decided to upgrade to a video monitor when we learned we were having our second baby. We've been using this Lorex video monitor for a couple of months now and we love it. It leaves nothing to the imagination. You know exactly how your child is sleeping. The video is very crisp in daytime and the night view is impressively detailed considering its subtle non-intrusive red lights. We use a cool mist humidifier as noise maker in our daughters room and it does not cause noticeable interference. The set up was pretty simple and everything connected without any hassles. We haven't tried connecting to the monitor via the internet yet. Overall I love this product after buying it the very first day it became available. I am planning on buying more cameras to take advantage of the 4 channel availability.

Review by Gadgetgal : So much more than a "baby" monitor!!!

I don't even have a baby -- what I do have is a teen and a tween. I also have a finished basement where my kids hang out and I like to monitor what goes on down there. I can clearly hear and view from 3 floors up! The clarity is superb, the features are great. As the description states, you can hook this up to skype so you can even see what's going on if you are not even home. So when my teen is babysitting, I can see what's going on from my iphone via skype! How cool is that?! There is also a "talk" button so if you choose, you can use it as an intercom system. I have been playing around with it and so far, I'm super impressed with what this can do. If you have any place in your home you want to monitor, this is the item. This is not just a "baby monitor", it's an in-home surveillance system and can even give you peace of mind when you aren't home. I would think this would be a great item to keep an eye on a puppy as well. Highly recommend. It is expensive but the quality and features make it worth the price.

Review by DSmithSC : Good, and BAD

I bought this monitor because of a friend referral. I also bought the Summer 3.5 Touch, and the Motorola MBP35 (3.5 screen). I originally bought the Summer Touch but wasn't 100% sold on it. That is why i purchased the other two.First off, the good:- Screen Clarity - Seemed better than the Summer and about the same as the Motorola.- Night Vision - This monitor had the best vision at night of all of the monitors. Everything was much brighter and easier to see. (also listed in the Negatives later).- Battery life - It seemed to get around 5 hours on a charge. About the same or a tad less than the Summer, but about 2 hours better than the Motorola.- Ability to record and save. - I only played with this feature, but I thought it would be great to have if a nanny or babysitter was over and you could keep track of the actual happenings with your baby. - Neither of the other two monitors had this feature.- Lullaby function - I'm not sure how much this would actually be used, but I thought it was a nice feature to have. The Motorola also had this.- Night Light - Again, not sure how much it would be used, but another nice feature. Neither of the other two monitors had this.- VIDEO STAYS ON when off of the charger. - I thought this was a great feature because on the other monitors you have to keep pressing the video button after it automatically times out after about 2 minutes to be able to see the screen and what is going on. They do this as a power saving feature but it is more aggravating than anything. The Lorex stays on and makes it easy.- The ability to add other cameras and be able to view them all simultaneously. The other two monitors allow you to add cameras, but have to view one at a time. Again, not sure if most parents would ever need this, but it is a nice feature.Now, with the BAD.- No Zoom feature on the Lorex. Both the Summer and Motorola have this ability. It has a pretty clear picture, but there are times where I want to zoom in on my child and could not.- No Panning feature on the Lorex. Both the Summer and Motorola have this. While this may be ok with some who just want to see a certain area of the crib, or don't mind leaving the camera in a fixed place, it could be an issue for others. I thought I could easily get past this, but I couldn't.- Audio - When compared to the Summer, you practically had to lay your ear on the back of the monitor (where the speaker is) to be able to hear the child. The Summer picks up the swing going back and forth, and allows you to adjust the volume to hear much more than the Lorex.- The Talk function. - If you put your mouth right on the microphone, it works ok. However, testing it with my wife and the Summer, she continuously said the Summer's sound quality on the other end was much better.- Audio Alerts. - a great idea for a feature, but it randomly worked and was more irritating than anything.- The Auto Mute, and Scan features. - While these are great features to have, they did not seem to work. They randomly chose when to turn on and it usually had to come from a loud noise, but sometimes chose not to even come on then. - And YES, I did adjust the sensitivity on the side.- Skype - while this is a GREAT selling point, it has its flaws. First, you cannot plug the monitor into a Mac computer to use this feature. Second, even when plugged into a PC, the video is so far behind and lacking once on Skype, it takes away the usefulness of the feature all together. Sometimes it would not even show movements that clearly happened.- Inability to connect the monitor to a TV or other video source. The Summer allows you to connect the monitor to a TV through RCA/mini usb so that you can view it on a larger screen if desired. The Lorex and Motorola do not.- The Night Vision. - While stated as a positive earlier (which it is), it also has a slight negative. The LED's on the camera are red and clearly visible at night, whereas the ones for the other monitors are not. This may bother or alert some children/etc., and may not for others. It is just a point I thought I should mention.After wanting to love this monitor and replace the Summer with it (already sent the Motorola back due to lack of technical support and inability to plug into another video source), I am afraid I am going to have to send the Lorex back as well. I wish someone would take the good parts of each of these monitors and combine them, but as of now, they have not. For now, we are sticking with the Summer monitor because it had the least negatives of all 3. I think the main reason I wanted something instead of the Summer monitor is because they specialize in baby clothes, products, etc. Motorola and Lorex specialize in communications and surveillance, therefore I figured there products would be better. I was mistaken.

Review by Lauae Cox "lulu" : Best for the price

Highly reccomend this monitor for toddlers! We have been using it a week now, and can talk to the kids from down in our room. It also just beeps when they make noise, so we can check the monitor at night. For the price, it's the best monitor we've used yet. The kids love talking to us through it, and if we ever figure it out, we can even have family skype with the device to talk with the kids, lol.Really wish that you could adjust the camera right or left. It's static placement is the only issue I really wish was different. For the price, though, it's not a huge deal.