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We real like our iBaby monitor. https://ibabylabs.com/shop/ibaby-monitor-m6/?gclid=CIrjmrmllM8CFdcZgQod0ZsDSQ

With this monitor you can change the sensitivity to alert you to sounds and movements. The clarity of the video is awesome wether the room is bright or dark. One feature that is definitely just a nice to have is that it acts a speaker. DH can tell LO Goodmorning through the monitor, which is great since he leaves well before LO wakes up. The monitor plays songs too. The app works well on both our Android and iPhone cell phones.

We have the base model. There is one that checks the humidity level in the room (nice to have not a must have), but after two days the camera in the dark stopped working. We haven't had a problem with our replacement iBaby. Right now you can save 15%.

We love our Motorola! It's going on almost 4 years. Picture and audio are both clear and I love that you can talk into it. I believe this is the one we have:

https://www.amazon.com/Motorola-MBP36S-Wireless-Monitor-3-5-Inch/dp/B00M2F0OYS/ref=sr_1_1_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1474044354&sr=8-1&keywords=motorola%2Bmbp36s%2Bbaby%2Bmonitor&th=1

I have a Motorola. The only con is that the parent unit is really loud and it also doesn't last a full night on charge. So we only use it while we are awake/baby is sleeping and then turn it off.

@Goldengirl: our initial one did not pan or tilt and it was more annoying than I expected!

For me the features I really appreciate are: pan/ tilt and zoom; clear picture even in dark, longish range (depends on your home). The temperature reading is really nice, though not necessary. I have never used the talking back to them feature.

I can't recommend ours specifically though- we had a cheaper summer infant one and now have wifi ones which I find really annoying.

@Goldengirl: Our old nursery was the coldest room in the house, so sometimes it out my mind at ease. But really, I think if you are bothering with the expense of a video monitor, it's worth paying a little more for a good one. I opted for a cheaper one (still expensive!) and regretted it.

@Goldengirl: You can, but I rarely kept it by the bed because the feedback was so loud! Our house is small, so I don't even know if I will use a baby monitor in our room this time. Our girls' room is directly across the hall from ours and we leave the doors open at night.

We've had 2 Motorola ones and I love them. The first one lasted 4 years using it every day- we only had to get a new one because the plug into the parent unit wouldn't stay in anymore. They fixed that problem with the new version (we have the Motorola MBP36S) since the jack is different. The newer one has tilt and zoom and a larger screen- it's amazing. I think the unit holds a charge for a pretty long time, especially if you have it on the standby mode where the video isn't displayed. We plug ours in every night so it's not really ever been a concern.

We have a Motorola and I love it. It has two cameras so it can scan between both kids' rooms. We've had it for 3.5 years, with no issues.

I will say it doesn't hold the charge very long, but I pretty much keep it plugged in on my nightstand 24/7, so that's not an issue.

The key features that I use and love are:
- Multiple cameras
- Temperature monitor
- Adjustable sound
- Adjustable camera view (up/down/left/right)
- Night vision
- Microphone - I often talk to the kids through the video monitor!

I thought having a monitor was so important, turns out we hardly used it because of the way our apartment was set up at the time when my son was born.

We had a motorola video monitor and it worked perfectly, but I never went far enough where I really needed it and we kept the door open so I could see and hear what was going on easily. I think they can be extremely useful in sleep training situations, though, where you need to know if everything is okay without going into the room.

@NorthStar: Yes, you can have it set to one room or the other or to scan, which does 10 seconds one room and automatically switches to the other. While it's viewing one room, you don't have sound or video for the other, but I felt comfortable with the 10 second delay.

I love that our monitor has zoom and pan. I hate that it does not have a temperature read ability.

This looks like an updated version of ours, but ours doesn't have a temp indicator or lullabies: http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=53376726&cp=2255957.2273447.12661883&parentPage=family

For us, the pan feature was really important. We could only put the camera in a certain spot and we couldn't initially see all of the crib in one shot. Then once we switched him to a full sized bed we really needed to be able pan around to see him. The zoom was never necessary though.

The other thing I liked about ours was that was a full time audio monitor. I've tried out wifi cameras that connect to your phone, but the app didn't stay running. We used one at my parents house and I was paranoid DS was going to be screaming and I wouldn't be able to hear him.

Oh, and the battery thing for us isn't a big deal. Ours is 3 years old and lasts about 4-5 hours now. So it's plenty of battery for nap time and at night we leave it plugged in on one of our night stands. We don't have any issues with feedback.

We're going to be looking for a new one soon because we had a foscam that seriously crapped out (stopped taking a charge) plus the video quality was pretty poor. The pan/tilt/zoom features were really key-- esp now that lo1 is in a big girl bed-- she hasn't gotten out of bed to play yet while she's supposed to be asleep but when she does I'll want to see what she's up to! I liked the temperature reading in our old apt when bc her room could get really hot so it helped us monitor that/know when to turn on an extra fan

We have a Levana... I mostly just need zoom/pan/tilt b/c DD sleeps on our bed and def moves around! Night vision, sound... I did not want something that I have to use it on a device.