Safety 1st In Sight Video Monitor Review

I added the Safety 1st In Sight Video Monitor to my baby registry at WalMart. We were expecting twins, our sixth and seventh children. They would be sharing a room with their 5 year old brother and sister. I wanted to be sure that the older two were not bothering the babies. I set up the system and liked that I could see clearly in their room day or night. The camera was hard to adjust to look into the cribs though. There is no way to attach the camera to the wall, it has to sit on a table top. Then the trick was trying to adjust the camera so that the lense pointed in between the bars of the crib. I tried this with my husband looking from the other room and ended up bringing the monitor into the kids' room. There was some feedback when the two components were too close together so it was still a bit difficult to set it up right. I could not see both babies at the same time and ended up setting the camera across the room looking at the two cribs, not the babies.

We placed the monitor in our room and found the microphone to be very sensitive. We heard every sigh and wiggle. But the monitor is very bright and interrupted our sleep. The picture was clear at the begining, but we found that there was interference from our telephone and television. Then, after about 6 months or so it started to act like the old style tube television sets. The screen started rolling and we couldn't get it to stop regardless of how much we tried to "hold" the screen. The picture became more and more fuzzy and eventually the monitor was useless except for the sound.

I called the manufacturer and was told that they could not offer a refund or repair the product. They did offer a slight discount on another model. We declined. We decided not to spend more money with a company that doesn't stand behind their product.

Very disappointing. It was a lot of money to use the product less than a year. There is no saving this one for the next baby.