Do You Need A Digital Baby Monitor For Your Kid?

As you are comparison shopping for the best baby monitors, you will notice that prices range from as low as $20 to as high as $300. What makes one product worth much more than another? The most cost-effective baby monitors are analog and operate on the 49 MHz or 2.4 GHz frequencies, which many older cordless telephones also operate on, incidentally. So it's not unusual to hear voices, sirens, traffic or heavy static through these analog models. Today, the best models are the digital baby monitor products with DECT technology, which encodes signals before sending them, uses more than sixty channels and ensures greater clearness, as well as security.
The Philips DECT baby monitor gets the highest reviews for sound lucidity and offers special features, like parent-to-baby intercom functionality, alert lights, room temperature gauges, a night-light and calming lullabies. The Summer infant baby monitor offers video, night-vision, sound-alert lights and zoom and pan functionality. The new Digitally Fresh digital baby monitor includes a 1.5-inch color LCD baby monitor screen, a walkie-talkie/receiver and a security camera. The Graco baby monitor, called the'iMonitor,' has multi-child monitoring features, an approximate 2,000-ft range, night vision and zoom. Mobi sells systems with unlimited receivers, wide camera angles, zoom, voice-activated video transmission and high-resolution screens. These top-end models run between $100 and $200.

You need to definitely consider a digital baby monitor if you have nearby neighbors with babies because analog monitors often cross channels, making it easy to pick up another signal from a similar baby monitor system. Check which frequency your cordless telephone operates on and make sure you don't end up with a 2.4 GHz cordless and a 2.4 GHz baby monitor, as these will interfere and cause static. Even though digital is dearer, you will want a monitor that does its first job well or it's simply not worth purchasing one at all . Most people just wish to have a basic, baby monitoring system that provides clear reception, has mobile handsets and picks up the sounds of the baby. Once you've had a basic system for a while, you'll decide you'd like some special features, such as multiple handsets, talk-back/intercom functionality or lights-only mode. You may even decide that actually seeing what your baby is up to on video monitors can be part of the joys of parenthood.