Motorola Wireless Video Baby Monitor

Update: below is a review I wrote for the MPB33, Motorola contacted me and allowed me to return the 33, and replaced it with the 36S. I like the 36S, the pan & zoom control from the parent unit is nice, and there are no issues with hissing or hiccuping. The cons now: the battery dies pretty quickly. I leave the charging cord at my nightstand and the parent unit is plugged in all night long. I take it off the plug in the AM and it operates for about an hour off the plug. It loses at least 1, if not 2 bars of power in just an hour. When my daughter goes to bed at night and the unit is off the charger for a few hours, like right now, I am down to 1 bar. Why? I click on the image every so often, but I don't leave it on for more than a few seconds. Why does it have to turn on when you plug the parent unit into the charging cord? Kudos for Motorola for reaching out to me to replace my defective unit, but I am still convinced that companies that make baby equipment don't test their products on people with babies! It's 2016 and humans have landed a rocket on a comet, why are we still stuck with baby monitors that hiss, hiccup, and are all-around aggravating? Pros: The camera can be adjusted (by hand) up & down and side to side to achieve the right view is great. The image quality is very nice, especially in daylight, it's quite beautiful. That's about it! I like the zoom in function of the camera, too, but the baby's face has to be in juuuust the right spot in the crib, or else you get a close-up of a zipper or onesie logo. Cons: You have to either press the on button several times or hold it for 5-10 seconds to turn on, and that's when the buzzing and beeping starts. The buzz is constant, the beeping goes away once the screen is turned off. These sounds do not decrease in volume even if you turn the volume of the unit down. In fact, it often times will jump to a louder beep and buzz, then fall back down to the normal level. Once you get past the beeping and buzzing there is the matter of the screen being on and off. You don't have to have the image of the baby on the monitor screen all of the time, and you'll save battery power, of course, by leaving the screen dark except to check in on the sleeping kiddo. When you do want to check in, however, an annoying red image appears across the screen, to tell you that the image will continue for 5 minutes. This warning disappears eventually, but I don't want it there in the first place! I am just peeking in, and don't need a giant warning about the time. I don't want the talk function, it's scares the kid, in my opinion, and I have accidentally pressed the button once or twice, which could seriously disturb my sleeping bambina. I also don't see a need for a music function. Every other baby product makes music, I swear I've seen a wipe dispenser that played a tune!?!?! Really, does the manufacturer need to waste the space, and increase the cost of the unit, by including the music? Seems totally unnecessary, but I don't think you can buy a monitor without it. Maybe I'm the one Mom who feels this way... All in all the monitor does its job, but it is clumsy at best. If you normally sleep with a sound machine then pack away the canned rainforest and enjoy the white noise of this Motorola!