NTM-910YLW - Sony Baby Call Nursery Monitor (Discontinued by Manufacturer)
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Yes, there is a reciever and a transmitter, as shown in the picture. The reciever has a rechargable battery, so you can take it with you and listen to your baby.
It's a monitor and a receiver at the same time.
The way it works is that you put one part in the room where you want to know what's going on and the other part in your own room, and you'll be able to hear every sound that comes from the room you put it in. When you place an order, you will receive both.
Yes, and the battery lasts for a long time; I've never had an issue with it. However, the overall quality does not satisfy me. They have a lot of reception problems and static.
Selected User Reviews For NTM-910YLW - Sony Baby Call Nursery Monitor (Discontinued by Manufacturer)
This is the baby monitor for you if you don't need video and just want a reliable workhorse. We've had two of these for the past nine years and they're both still going strong (we gave one to a friend when we only needed one). br>br>Even with the volume turned down low, the sound is clear. The feed is quite long - it stretches quite far. We can get a good signal even if we are on opposite ends of the house and on different floors. These do occasionally beep if someone moves in the middle of the night (for example, if someone gets up to use the bathroom and the signal is disrupted), but we don't mind because of the price and durability. We've used these at Grandma's house and on vacation in a variety of different rentals, and they've always worked out well. Our current set is five years old and travels with us on vacation every year to provide us with peace of mind in an unfamiliar environment. br>br>Highly recommended!.
Our favorite is a 900MHz analog monitor from school. Pros:
1. Mice with a high sensitivity The baby's breathing can be heard!
2. The battery life of the parent/receptor unit is extremely long. br>3 Exceptionally tough (our previous unit withstood numerous drops)br>4. 5. Waterproofbr> The Voice Activated mode is extremely useful. br>6. The speaker on the parent unit is VERY loud. Overcoming background noise with ease. br>7. Quite a selection. br>br>Contrary to popular belief, there are a number of disadvantages to using this product.
1. It may lose a signal for no apparent reason and then enter "Out of range" mode (LOUD beeping!). ) for a few moments as it re-configures establishes a link with the signal This occurs frequently as a result of analog interference (see below)br>2. Because it is not a digital monitor, you will hear background hiss when it is turned on (the same noise you would hear if you turned up your stereo speakers without playing anything). br>br>Summary: br>br> br>We used this monitor with our first child four years ago (and still use it to keep an "ear out" for him at night) and we still use it today. We wanted something newer, digital, and a monitor that worked on a more "secure" frequency (2. ) when baby #2 arrived a few months ago. We spent a lot of time looking into the new baby monitors on the market (4GHz), so we spent a lot of time looking into them. We tested top brands (Angelcare, Graco, VTech, and others) over the course of two months. and decided to buy another Sony Babycall in the end. br>br>While this baby monitor has flaws, it does provide us with the one thing we truly require: which entails being able to hear the baby with confidence. br>br>The best thing about this monitor is the microphone, which is extremely sensitive; I can hear the baby breathing even when the monitor is set to "on" all the time. For the paranoid parent, knowing that you won't miss anything is reassuring. Yes, there is some static, but that is the hiss that any analog system produces. When your home stereo speakers are turned on but nothing is playing, you'll hear the same hiss. This quiet hiss is actually one of my favorites because it indicates that the monitor is on and the batteries haven't died. The newer digital monitors, with all of their noise-cancelling technology, are completely silent, and the paranoid I had to keep checking on the monitor to make sure it was still working because the parent in me had gone a little crazy. br>br>Of course, there are times when you don't want to hear the monitor in constant mode, so you can set the Sony Babycall to "Voice activated," and it will only turn off if the baby makes a noise. Other brands have this feature, but Sony's works the best because it is intelligent enough to filter out only true background noise (filters out both the white noise machine we have and the Mozart CD we play), not any baby noises. Unlike Graco and VTech, Sony's algorithm allows you to hear the baby's first whimpering and whining, and it appears to magically adjust to the ambient noise level in the room, whereas the other brands simply filter out those baby noises as background noises. So, by using the Sony monitor in Voice Activated mode, I can reach the baby before she melts down, when she's still whimpering. When the monitor goes off in voice activated mode with the other brands, it means the baby has progressed from whimpering to hollering and upset. This can mean the difference between me getting back to sleep quickly after tending to a drowsy baby and spending 30 minutes calming down a riled-up child in the middle of the night. Before you can go back to sleep, you must first wake up the baby. br>br>The sound output from the parent unit is also loud enough for me to hear it over the TV and other background noises. I was constantly on edge with the other brands we used, unsure if I had actually heard the baby monitor go off or not. It's the difference between being honked at by a Japanese compact car and being honked at by a massive Ford pickup truck when it comes to the Sony: Without a doubt. The volume control is extremely responsive, operates via a dial, and ranges from very quiet to quite loud. br>br>The range is excellent. It is functional throughout my two-story home, including the attic. I haven't gone very far out of the house with the monitor (only to the garbage cans near the garage), and I haven't had any problems losing signal. With this monitor, I'm sure you won't be able to wander down the street to your neighbor's house, but then again, who does that? br>br>We've been using the other unit for my son on a daily basis for over four years. The parent unit has survived multiple drops, tumbles down the stairs, and a dunk in the sink with the faucet running, and it still works as well as the day we bought it. We're still using the original rechargeable battery that came with it, and it still holds a charge for 6 hours; we never tested the battery to its maximum capacity, so I'm not sure how long it will last, but it's plenty long enough for us. br>br>And now for the bad news: br>Every now and then, the parent unit loses the signal from the baby side for no apparent reason. It happens every other week or so, at the most. In order to complete the 2- It takes 3 seconds to re-enter the room. When a link is established, the parent unit beeps loudly at FULL VOLUME to indicate that the signal has been lost. It's not quite as loud as your smoke detector, but it's loud enough to startle you. br>br>Because the baby monitor is analog, it can be harmed by anything from cell phones to wi-fi. From Wi-Fi to cordless phones to additional monitors, the possibilities are endless. And it can be set off by something as simple as my feet resting on the coffee table next to the monitor. As a result, this type of induced interference occurs every other day or so. Sometimes it's just loud static, other times it's a loud buzzing/clicking, and other times it's the crazy I LOST THE SIGNAL beeping. This is a minor annoyance that can easily be remedied by moving the monitor to a new location on the coffee table or by shifting my position slightly. br>br>Despite this annoyance, we returned to this monitor because of the reliability of being able to hear the baby. We can hear the monitor over background noise (TV on moderate volume, someone washing dishes), the Voice Activation mode works reliably, and the monitor is sensitive enough to pick up every little noise. I'd rather be inconvenienced by the occasional random burst of beeping and interference than be concerned that I won't be able to hear the baby because the monitor doesn't get loud enough or that the monitor will filter out the baby noise as background noise and I won't be able to hear the baby. One thing to keep in mind is that the two parent units do not interfere with one another. We placed the two units side by side on the coffee table after the two kids had gone to bed (4 year old monitor and newly purchased monitor), set to two different frequencies of course, and they worked perfectly. Surprisingly, if one emits a burst of static interference, the other tends to remain silent. br>br>This monitor isn't perfect, but it's one of our favorites.
In an age when we have smart phones that can do everything from video calls to real-time messaging, I'm amazed that a simple little device with one primary function (to transmit audio from a sensing device to another receiving device) is so difficult to perfect, especially after reading other reviews that even those who spent more on non-essential items found it difficult to master. Because video monitors weren't quite cutting it, I decided to give the Sony Baby Call Nursery Monitor a shot first. br>br>The first two nights were a disaster. I had it set to voice activation, which in theory is fantastic. When the baby cries, it should "turn on," but otherwise remain silent so you don't have to listen to static. Even when the baby was sound asleep, the monitor would frequently turn on during the night. We gave up and turned it off after a long time. We tried it at my parents' house on the third night and it worked perfectly, despite the fact that they have the same types of signal distractions there, such as wi-fi. Wi-Fi and a number of cell phones The monitor's light display feature was extremely useful. We put the baby to bed in the middle of a loud party my parents were throwing, and thanks to the red lights, I was able to see when the baby was crying because I couldn't hear it on the monitor due to the noise. br>br>When we got home, we tried again, but this time moved the sensing monitor across the baby's room (but closer to the fan) and put our listening (receiving) monitor in our bathroom instead of right next to our bed. This seemed to work better, and the number of "false positives" (when the alarm goes off even though the baby isn't making any noise) has dropped dramatically, though they still happen. br>br>On the whole, it works, but not flawlessly. Voice activation mode and red light sound indicators are two of the best features. We haven't had any issues with battery life, though the range appears to be a little limited in our two-story home with 1650 square feet on each level. (I get the "out of range" warning beeps if I use it in the opposite corner from the baby's room. ).
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