Samsung Wireless Video Baby Monitor w/ 3.4" Color Screen, Night Vision, 2-Way Talking, & Remote Viewing $129.99 f/s

How can I tell Mrs. Greedy I had to buy it? Maybe the brand name? Night vision? The reviews? Anyway, I'm sure the baby agrees with me...

Quote from GreedyDan : How can I tell Mrs. Greedy I had to buy it? Maybe the brand name? Night vision? The reviews? Anyway, I'm sure the baby agrees with me...

I know it cost more, but Mr and Mrs Greedy would be happier with a Motorola MBP36 Baby monitor. The reviews are much better than this Samsung.

Good luck...

I've been eye-balling the more recent models with better reviews but at nearly half the price, I will give this a whirl. Big thanks for this find.

$180.77 on Amazon [amazon.com]- reviews are alllll over the place. Out of 187 reviews, average is 3.4 out of 5 stars.

Not sure whether to pull the trigger but great find, OP. Anyone have overall yays/nays or general complaints on this site - I've seen good deals but never purchased anything. Based on the Amazon reviews, warranty replacements might be of issue and dealing with a bad site could be problematic if Samsung doesn't respond.
Thoughts?

Mrs. BF and I actually spent a fair amount of time researching video baby monitors in the last few weeks. After seriously considering the Motorola MBP36 (among others), we settled on the Summer Baby Touch Video Monitor [amazon.com]. Just my 2 cents.

The wife & I ended up buying the Moto MBP36 last year but this Samsung would have been our #2 pick but it was rather cost-prohibitive at the time. One feature I like on the Moto that sold it for us is that it has mulit-colored LEDs across the top that illuminate to let you know when a baby is crying even if you have the volume turned down. We've been quite pleased with it aside from my usual criticisms of it from a technical standpoint (poor LCD viewing angles, non-standard charger etc). I think the concensus at the time was that the Samsung was the most well-built and stylish compared to the Summer/Motorola/Philips competitors.

My biggest gripe with all of these monitors (all brands) is that they are all rather overpriced and poorly-built for the asking price. And why can they not use a standard microUSB port for power(which we have adapters everywher) instead of some fragile-feeling proprietary connector? I think the Moto monitor is not a genuine Motorola product and is like their digital photo frames where it's made by someone else and just rebranded/licensed with the Moto name & logo.

I'm curious, but can't you just hook up a $20 webcam pointed at the baby, and blutooth it to your Smartphone or something like that? Don't know how all that works, but you'd think something like that would be available that would make these overpriced baby monitors extinct (?)

I suggest the Dropcam if you have a smartphone or tablet (iOS/Android). Same features (night vision, HD, 2-way, alerts, etc) and you can use it anywhere you get the internet. It uses your wireless router and bank-level encryption. There's no service fees, and the setup is dead simple. I have ours mounted on the top of the crib looking down at the baby.

DONT BUY THIS UNIT!!!

I have one... and the battery lasts on the viewer about 20minutes if Im lucky! Also the stand for the viewscreen is useless. It doesn't open up far enough.

In retrospect I sohuld have jus tpicked up a Foscam and a cheap audio camera. I like our Motorola as well but when the power cord fried out I stuck my foscam in my sons baby room and along with a simple audio monitor it is so much easier and better quality.

Check out the Angelcare 4 Piece Baby Video Sound and Movement Baby Monitor System Ac1100 (~$203 today on Amazon, we purchased for $179.99). Huge drawback is that it's not internet/WiFi enabled but otherwise I couldn't be more pleased. The mattress movement monitor really works well and as much as I'd like to be able to view on iPhone/Android, at the end of the day (in my opinion) the quality and functionality is most important, not necessarily the coolest gadget.

Quote from MAK1981 : I'm curious, but can't you just hook up a $20 webcam pointed at the baby, and blutooth it to your Smartphone or something like that? Don't know how all that works, but you'd think something like that would be available that would make these overpriced baby monitors extinct (?)

I thought so too, but there really is a difference between specifically made baby cam and your logitech webcam or foscam wireless webcam.

1. Some baby cams are more portable. Both the monitor part and the camera part. So, you're not tied to only monitoring the baby in the baby room because the camera has to be plugged. $20 webcams need to be connected to a computer - you're stuck using it in the baby room, and that's assuming you have an extra laptop to run the webcam. That laptop, even if yo have a spare, would be valued at at least $70. The $80 wireless webcams like foscam or linksys need AC adapters, don't come with monitors.

2. Baby cameras have better microphones, and the included monitor does a better job of monitoring for sound / crying. Off the shelf wireless (foscam, linksys) have horrible microphones, and bad audio encoding. If you go with a webcam and a laptop, you can use a pretty decent mic on the laptop, but again, that is not a cheap solution. Kind of cumbersome.

How about setting up skype to monitor? People even use skype as a nannycam for monitoring from work.