Motorola’s MBP36 Digital Video Baby Monitor with 3.5″ color LCD screen is the perfect addition to your child’s nursery or bedroom. Equipped with 2.4 Gigahertz FHSS technology to prevent crossed signals and to promote sound clarity. The 3.5″ color LCD screen with 25 FPS refresh and infrared night vision will allow you to easily monitor the room environment, even in the dark, to ensure your child’s comfort. The pan, tilt and zoom of the camera can be remotely adjusted while your child sleeps. The MBP36 is also equipped with impressive features like: room temperature monitoring, five polyphonic lullabies, additional camera capability, five LED alerts for noise level. This monitor also has a range of up to 200 meters and out of range warning, allowing you to move around the house or yard comfortably, knowing you will hear when your little one is awake. The MBP33 Digital Video Baby Monitor by Motorola is the perfect choice for any parent or caregiver.
Motorola really listened to what parents wanted and needed when they created the MBP 36. If you have tried any baby monitors, you will know a lot of them beep when you turn on the camera. If you are trying to lay your child down for a nap or bed time and you don’t have the camera turned on, you run the risk of waking up your child. This unit does not have this problem. You can power up the camera at anytime and there is no beep, noise, sound, etc.
Motorola’s MBP36 Digital Video Baby Monitor Overall Reviews
I have tried several brands/types of video monitors such as Sony, Summer Infant monitors, and a Costco brand that can be used via the internet and Iphone/Ipad2. This Motorola monitor is the BEST that I have found. Money was not an issue for me as I wanted a video/audio monitor that just worked well. I do recommend spending a little more and buying the 3.5 inch monitor.
The resolution 320 x 240 at night is awesome as I can see my baby breathing. I can see everything in great detail. The picture (Black&White) is brillant and the nightvision is top notch.The color day image is great and not at all grainy.
The menu is super easy to use.
The camera views best when mounted on the wall close to the crib-this way it can scan straight down and straight up viewing the entire crib and room.
Also important when you have a child that rolls all over the crib as they sleep! You need to see every inch of the crib. When scanning from the monitor it makes absolutely no noise and doesn’t wake the baby. The sound is great!
With this monitor I can put the volume up loud to hear every little move or put the volume down low to only wake when he cries loudly. The monitor has a light indicator on top to inform you of the “loudness” of the baby’s cry.
The battery on the monitor, when fully charged, lasts 8 to 10 hours but I recommend it plugged in to the power cord at night. There is no delay. What you see is what is happening, allowing you to get to your baby fast! The screen shuts off to conserve power but you just have to hit a button to bring it back up.
Another small plus is the chargers are multi-voltage capable so can be used when traveling to Europe/Asia.
Motorola MBP36 Digital Video Baby Monitor Pros
Digital: I was having problems with my previous analog monitor (Summer) interfering with other monitors and viewing other peoples children.
Talk Function: There is a two-way talk function on this monitor- and I don’t know of many baby monitors that have this feature. You press the talk button to speak, and release it to hear your child (if they are talking age of course). Good feature and would be very useful for monitoring older children
First of all, the LCD screen is huge. It is 3.5″ diagonally. For reference, and iPhone is 3.7″.
The unit is very thin, its about as thick as a typical men’s wallet. It is lightweight, has a nice kick stand that seems very sturdy and nice, grippy rubber feet on the bottom that are very unobtrusive but work great
There is an antenna across the top back that can flip up if you need it to get better reception
There are 4 buttons on each side of the screen, 4 directional that control camera, volume, menu navigation, a menu button, an “ok” button, a video on/off button and a microphone button.
They are well placed, it is not a huge problem to have to hit the menu to get to volume, we had to do the same on the Summer Bestview and it is the first menu option (i.e. hit the menu button and it is already in the volume option, so just hit up/down from there).
The unit has pretty good industrial design too, which seems to be the trend in baby monitors now.
Battery life is decent, it works enough to have a daytime nap and then use it again in the evening without charging in between.
There is a series of LEDs across the top that indicate how much noise your kids are making, and there is a very accurate temperature display.
The ability to scan and pan is great, very quiet and no likely to disrupt your kid.
There is a small green LED on the front of the camera, but you can’t see the infrared lights in the dark
The zoom is not great, kind of hard to get to on the menu and it is only a digital zoom that crops the center of the picture and doubles it.
It is small and can be placed pretty much anywhere.
The picture that it sends to the handheld unit is great and very clear. The huge LCD screen helps. In daylight it is incredibly crisp and vibrant.
The wifi functio operates at 2.4GHz and we mostly have 5Ghz 802.11n devices, so we are in a different bandwidth that doesn’t conflict.
If you have additional cameras (up to 4), you can set the monitor to manually scan through them, it will stay on each one for 12 seconds based on what it says in the manual.
You can have up to 4 motorola mbp36 additional camera, but there is no ability to see multiple ones on the the screen at once.
Motorola’s MPB36 Digital Video Baby Monitor Cons
The thermometer sensor is short – less than 1 inch so if the monitor is mounted on the wall it will pick the wall temperature rather then the room temperature. Longer probe would be useful for more accurate temp read.
One other minor thing worth mentioning is that the infrared LEDs at night are not very bright from 10 feet away, we are just going to put a shelf near our 3 year olds bed so that it will be closer (think of the LEDs around the camera as flashlights for night vision).
It takes 16 hours to fully charge the battery from empty. One other possible thing worth mentioning is that the monitor unit takes a proprietary battery, very similar to what a lot of cordless phones have.
There is no way to turn the sound completely off.
The camera turns off when on battery after 2 minutes. I understand that Motorola wants to save battery life so it looks better in the specs – but please give me an option to turn the energy saving option off if my heart desires so. I already have plenty of energy efficient baby toys and swings I have to remember to keep powering on.
There is no battery for camera. The cord is nice and long, but it would be nice to be able to take the camera outside.
