Summer Infant Baby Touch Digital Color Video Monitor

by Summer Infant

Product Features

• 3.5" color video display
• Digital technology, pan, scan and zoom
• 2-way talk back feature
• Docking station for easy charging, battery indicator on screen tells you how much battery life the parent's unit has left
• Up to 400' range

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 4.5 x 11.2 x 10 inches ; 2.4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B004B762AK
• UPC: 012914020005
• Item model number: 20000
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #93 in Baby (See Top 100 in Baby)
  • #4 in Baby > Safety > Monitors
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (153 customer reviews)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The Summer Infant Baby Touch is small in size and sleek in design, it is the first-ever touch screen video monitor. With a generous 3.5" touch screen LCD panel, parents can interact and keep an eye on baby using the same smart phone technology available today. A simple touch of the screen gives parents the ability to adjust the brightness, pan/scan and zoom. The super quiet camera can be remotely activated so parents can reposition their viewing angle to see baby at all times – even in the dark. The camera also comes complete with a back-up battery pack for uninterrupted service in the event of a power outage. Lastly, the Baby Touch includes a two-way talk-back feature so mom and baby can be in touch at all times. Revolutionary and feature-rich, the Baby Touch represents the next generation of baby video monitoring.

Product Description

The BabyTouch Color Video Monitor is the most innovative baby video monitor on the market. It features a revolutionary touch-screen controlled monitor, the first of its kind. Like many of the smart phones, simply touch the screen to control the monitor's pan, scan, zoom and brightness features. Two other great aspects include a stylish, magnetic docking station for the handheld unit and a wireless, rechargeable battery-powered dock for the camera. Another wonderful feature is the unique talk-bac

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

151 of 153 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The best option for monitoring mult. rooms., April 11, 2011

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Allison - See all my reviews

This review is from: Summer Infant Baby Touch Digital Color Video Monitor (Baby Product)

Ok, so I gave this monitor 4 stars rather than 5 because it does have some annoying flaws. I have researched so many monitors for multiple cameras and this one seemed the best. I had the Summer Infant Best View, which was AMAZING!! I sold it to a friend to help pay for this one, and I was kind of sad because I wasn't sure how this one would compare. It seems, like most of the reviews, as long as you don't get a "lemon", it works great.

I purchased mine from BabiesRus.com and ordered the extra camera too (they have it in stock right now, and Amazon does not.) Basically, the first one I tried, the monitor was blank and showed nothing. But if I hooked it up to my TV, I could see the baby sleeping, so I knew it wasn't the camera. I brought that one back and got another one. This one works!!! The video quality is not as good as the Best View, but is good enough. I have listed the PROS and CONS below!!

PROS

-Normal amount of interference with Wi-Fi. You will have this problem with most video monitors.
-No static...very clear sound, and we are 2300 feet from my daughter's room.
-The battery on the monitor appears to be pretty good, lasts all day and I charge it each night, even though it is not completely drained.
-The battery pack for the camera is a neat feature, but I haven't hooked it up. Keep in mind that if you purchase an additional camera, the battery pack is not included.
-The volume is really great and there are no problems with hearing the baby rustling around on the sheets, which is nice.
-Scanning feature!!!!! This feature is what I have been looking for. When you put it on "scan," it scans between the cameras you have set up. When the video is on, you see and hear what is being monitored (1st camera, then 2nd...and back to 1st again.) When you are sleeping, and the video is off, the sound is still scanning between rooms. On other monitors, the sound would stop on the room you had the camera on last. What's the point in that? Also, some have no sound and only video scanning. Like any person is just going to stay awake all night and stare at the video monitor to see if there are any issues with the babies. This one does the trick, though, with both video and audio scanning.
-The monitor is very sensitive to touch and easy to use.
-Camera is easy to swivel around to your preference...from the comfort of your bedroom, or wherever...though, I pretty much just keep it where it is. :)
-I love the intercom feature because sometimes I just talk to my daughter just for fun...when she is awake and I am about to go get her. She looks at the camera and says, "mama??" I love it!!
-There is a really nice "leg" on the monitor that is easy to open and close so you can stand it up, if you choose. (The dock props it up, as well, which makes quick "glances" at the monitor easy. If you choose not to use the dock, the plug goes right into the monitor if you don't enjoy the dock. (I discuss this below in the Con section.))

CONS

-It appears that there are a lot of "lemons" out there, so if yours has problems, bring it back and get another one right away.
-The dock is really light and is magnetic, so when I try to pick it up off the dock with one hand, it usually picks up the dock and drops it on the floor. Annoying, but not a deal-breaker.
-The "talk" button is right by the power button and since you have to hold the power button to turn the monitor off and hold the talk button to talk to the child, some people have reported accidentally holding the talk button and waking the child. This has not happened to me. It would be wise for Summer Infant to make a minor change in that area.
-Video quality can definitely be improved. The night vision is better than the color, but really, it is always dark when I am monitoring her, so this is not a problem. And, again, not a deal-breaker for me.

CONCLUSION

Basically, it boils down to how many rooms/kids you are monitoring. The scanning feature is just too important and outweighs all of the cons, in my opinion!! Please ask questions, if you have them. I had millions and just went for it!!

38 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hopefully this will save you some headaches, June 30, 2011

By 

Mom (New Orleans, LA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Summer Infant Baby Touch Digital Color Video Monitor (Baby Product)

So I will start with the fact that I have purchased 4 different monitors :
1) 2.4GHz DIGITAL WIRELESS BABY VIDEO MONITOR SYSTEM WITH NIGHT VISION -- 2.4" Color LCD Screen (Two-way Radio communication) by Smart AV ,
2) MOBICAM DXR DIGITAL MONITORING SYSTEM,
3) SAMSUNG WIRELESS VIDEO SECURITY MONITORING SYSTEM w/ 3.5" LCD,
4) SUMMER INFANT BABY TOUCH COLOR VIDEO MONITOR by Summer infant.

I have a 3yr. old and I was still using my Sony baby call monitor which I still love, but now I need to see when she gets out of her bed and I wanted the two way feature "talk to the baby feature" so I could talk to her and tell her to get back in her bed. I should also say that I want to see as much of her room around her bed as I could her room is 11 ft. by 12ft I put the camera in the corner on a shelf eight feet off the ground about 10 and ½ ft away from her bed, so if she got out of her bed I could see where she was. I could also see her during the day playing in her room. Well, let me say that they at least at this moment they don't make a monitor with a 100% "clear" picture for day and night vision.

First up, I bought the 2.4 GHz MONITOR by SMART AV: It was good I could see her ok during the day, and at night with the night vision and I could hear her and she could hear me when I talked on it.
CONS: Not the best picture but it was good enough. The camera did not adjust down far enough I had to put a coaster under the back half to get it to angle down some more and no sound bar (the lights that light up according to how noisy it is in the room). The big problem was it did not have the rechargeable batteries the other reviewers said it had. (Amazon told me it was probably because they bought it from a different seller not DBroth.) You can put regular batteries in it but if you want to plug it in you have to remove the batteries first. I tried to purchase the rechargeable batteries from them it has been a week and a half they still have not answered my emails. I returned it. Update: I never received a response.

Next up, the MOBICAM DXR DIGITAL MONITORING SYSTEM: it had a ok picture during the day a little grainy but you could see. Night vision was grainy but ok.
CONS: No sound bar, grainy day and night vision, when you touch the talk button to speak to the child it did not always work I would have to let it go and press it again to get it to work. I had it replaced with a new one thinking it might have been that one and the new one did the same thing. I called Amazon and they said they are not selling these directly anymore because of that happening to the batch of these they had maybe a bad batch they are investigating it, but you can still buy it from third party sellers on Amazon. UPDATE: Amazon is now selling them again.

Next up, was the SAMSUNG WIRELESS VIDEO SECURITY MONITORING SYSTEM w/ 3.5" LCD: this one had the best picture of them all but only for during the day (although it had a yellow glow at the top of the screen from the light in the room but the light was not in the cameras view I adjusted the camera down even further and it still remained. It has a nice night light and music that you can turn on and off from the monitor. I really, really wanted to like it.
CONS: The camera did not adjust down far enough for me on my shelf, so I put a coaster under the back half to angle it down some more, There were also some "delays" (like when walking or just moving fast the screen would "miss some frames/some of the movement" in the picture.) The temperature gauge was not correct, the alarm for detection of sound in the room was a pain to adjust, I did not like that when It went in to sleep mode (the screen goes black to power save) the volume would shut off, till it heard a sound, I wanted it on unless I turned it down, (which is how the baby touch monitor operates in sleep mode the sound does not shut off but you can turn it down if you wish), the zoom function was a BIG pain you have to go into the menu out of the "picture screen" and put it on zoom then go back to the "picture screen", the volume was not very loud at all my husband was like it doesn`t turn up louder than that? The "talk to the baby" function was "choppy"(not as clear as the summer infant baby touch) and my absolute deal breaker was, I would think the MAIN REASON you would purchase a monitor like this the night vision: at night with and without a night light on in the room I could barely see anything much less my daughter in her bed you would really have to stare and look good to make any thing out, the infrared led's must not be strong at all. (If you want it for close up it might work I don't know never tested close up tested all of them in the same place about 10 and 1/2 feet away from her bed up on a shelf I need to see at least part of the room around her bed.)

I was so aggravated by this search, I printed out a twenty percent off coupon from the internet for Babies R Us and went and bought the SUMMER INFANT BABY TOUCH MONITOR, the new one they have with the touch screen monitor and pan and zoom camera. I put it to the test compared it to the SAMSUNG and MOBI. My two most important things were the night vision to see her at night and the "talk to the baby" function so I could talk to her. This summer infant model has a secure private connection unlike the other summer infant monitors. Its picture is ok (not HD but none of them are) slightly, slightly, slightly grainy during the day but still really good, and its night vision although a little grainy was the best out of all of them for the distance, (again I did not test close up) plus I can move the camera around remotely from the monitor to see where she's at in the room and I can zoom in easily the functions appear below and to the right of the picture when you touch the screen although the closer you zoom in the grainier it got but that was with ALL of the models I tested.

AFTER A LOT OF TESTING AND DEBATE, I RETURNED THEM ALL EXCEPT FOR THE SUMMER INFANT BABY TOUCH MONITOR. I really like it. I am glad I just went ahead and spent a little more money and bought it. The pan and zoom features work great. (THIS IS THE ONLY MONITOR OUT OF THE ONES I TESTED THAT HAS THE ACTUAL PAN FEATURE. THE ABILITY TO MOVE THE CAMERA AROUND THE ROOM REMOTELY FROM THE CONTROLS ON THE MONITOR. The Samsung does not have the pan feature.) I can see her WHOLE room day or night. After a certain amount of time it goes into power save mode when it is not on the charger and turns off the picture but you can still hear the sound you can still adjust the volume and if you want to see the picture again just press the button on the top. If it is on the charger the picture will stay on unless you press the button on the top to turn the screen back off. The monitor has a lithium-ion battery and the camera has the option to put regular batteries in it if you can not plug it in a outlet. The monitor also has a belt clip that doubles as the stand for it when the monitor is not on the charger. I called summer infant to ask about recommendations for the rechargeable battery for the monitor the company says not to charge the battery more than eight hours and let it run down before you put it back on the charger for maximum battery life.

44 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Features, Needs Better Video, January 19, 2011

By 

J. White "JWJW2" (Raleigh, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Summer Infant Baby Touch Digital Color Video Monitor (Baby Product)

For the past year, we've owned the Summer Infant Night & Day Video Monitor and the video quality is perfect (crystal clear). A couple of months ago, the volume didn't work at certain levels and the sound started to have more static, making it distracting during sleep for me.

We started looking at the digital monitors (as I've heard they will never get the "static" sound). We went for the Summer Infant BabyTouch. From the start we were in love with the sleek look and all of the features. Everything works great...except the video quality. If this is your first video monitor, you'll probably love this (you won't have anything to compare it to). If you've had great video quality before and are switching to this video monitor, it will be noticeable for you.

The video is grainy and the movement is somewhat choppy (think gas station video footage). You can still make out where the baby is and what's going on, but it's just not crystal clear like the picture on the box shows. I did call customer service at Summer Infant and was extremely impressed with their help. They made some suggestions and were extremely friendly and helpful, but their suggestions didn't help at all.

The features of this monitor outweigh the bad video quality, so we have decided to keep this monitor (we even exchanged it at our local store to see if there was a difference in them...there wasn't).

Pros -
- Easy to navigate around (sound, pan, zoom, etc...)
- Great sound
- Great pan
- Talk feature
- Docking station (quick to put on and it's charging versus having to find the cord to plug in and charge)
- Touch screen

Cons -
- Lame zoom (but all video monitors have this zoom - jumps straight to a closer view)
- The "talk" button is located next to the on and off button. You have to hold the on/off button for 4 seconds and the "talk" button has to be held down (like a Walkie Talkie) to be heard. I've accidentally held down the "talk" button when I thought I was turning on/off the monitor and was talking (waking my son up). It's not the end of the world, but just a suggestion to the company to switch the location of this button (it's the same size as the on/off button too).
- The video quality is a big disappointment