I have had this monitor for about 6 months now. At first I was thrilled with it. The screen is a great size and the picture, during the day, is very clear. The night vision is OK, but can't be dimmed like other models I've had in the past. So it keeps our room brightly lit all night unless we turn off the picture all together (which you can do and still have the sound on). However, about a month after purchasing it, it started to get very finicky. The picture is still OK, but there is lots of crackling and buzzing. Then if you even get it in the same room with a portable phone or any other electrical source (even an outlet) it just flashes, crackles loudly and flickers on and off. Very annoying. It got to the point where we cannot have it next to our bed at night. The only place where we can find a spot with limited interference is in the hallway outside our room. Kind of defeats the purpose... at that point, the monitor is closer to the baby than it is to us.
Yesterday, the monitor just crackled and died. Sound still works, but the picture is dead. I'm going back to our first monitor that lasted about 18 months and was great (safety 1st, sight and sound monitor) It wasn't in color, but this monitor only shows color in bright sunlight. At night, it's all black and white anyway.
Also... the blue power lights and a large 1/2" light around the brightness control on the monitor, as well as the power lights on the camera are so bright, they need to be covered with electrical tape... and even then, the blue light creeps out. Way too bright and distracting to a baby (or Mom and Dad) trying to sleep!
I would not recommend this monitor. Not worth the money or the aggravation.