Very easy to use - would highly recommend
I have been using this sterilizer daily for three months now and I am very happy with the product. It is very easy to use, takes Medela and Evenflo bottles, plastic and glass, nipples, pacifiers, etc. I use tap water and run it a couple times per day. Takes not much space on the counter as well.

Very good
This is very good. We had the older version too. This one takes so much less time. Highly recommended.

Broken after 4 months moderate use
It is a fantastic item to sterilize baby's bottles, pacifier, utensil etc., as long as it works. But mine dead after 4 months of daily decent use. {Though it is still in its one year warranty, I lost the packaging box. :( }

Quick and easy!!!!!!
This product is excellent; follow the instructions and make sure you perform the monthly maintanance, which consists of rinsing with vinegar and water. It sure does get the job done!!!

Saving Customers from a Bad Product
Hi, let me give my opinion from this product, i bought in november, i was preparing for be a first time pather, from the brand name, we bougth pacifiers, food warmer, all step niples, magic cups, bottle feedings 4 and 9 oz, avent via for milk storage, and a manual breast pump, my little babie girl was born in march, so yesterday, the sterilizer stop working, and dont start, the number screen totally death, i see the manual to search some trouble help, and nothing useful, i make a call to avent, and nothing to do, so im very dissapointment about the quality of this product, was very helpful, easy to use, easy to clean, and a good help for a first time parents, but it only works for 3 months thats really a waste of money, like i said i like the brand avent, so i buy today a avent microvawe sterilizer i think thats a better option, more cheap, and same benefits, the only problem its go to the kitchen to sterilize instead on the room. Avent you fail me with this product. Bad Really Bad.

Fantastic, until it quit working!
This was a wonderful monitor - loved the light indicator, no interference with phones or wifi, and the volume and sensitivity were easily adjusted - but earlier this week, it just started turning itself off in the middle of the night. No beeps, nothing - we'd just wake up to the baby crying in his room on the other side of the house (who knows how long he'd been going), and the monitor would have turned itself off. We tried several different things to fix it, and nothing worked, and his room is just too far from ours for us to not be able to trust our monitor.

So, the monitor was great until it just stopped working. We'll be buying a new monitor this afternoon.

Mostly great, but backup battery feature is very flawed
We've been using the Aveda SCD510 for seven months. We bought it based on the positive reviews we've seen and the fact that it has a two-year warranty. We find the signal to be reliable, the sound to be perfectly adequate in every corner of our two-story apartment, and the design to be easy to use. One feature that sold us on this product is that both the base (baby) unit and the end (parent) unit can run on battery power when not plugged into the wall. If you're roaming around the house, you can take the parent unit with you as long as you keep the rechargeable batteries charged. That's always worked just fine for us.

As it turns out, though, the batteries in the _baby_ unit are another story. The manufacturer's assumption is that the baby unit stays in the nursery and doesn't get moved around. Thus, the battery backup is not designed for portable use, but rather for power backup in case of a blackout. It uses AA batteries, not a rechargable battery pack. This is a problem, because as a power backup, the battery feature doesn't do its job.

If you have a clock radio or other devices that use a battery backup, you know that every 6-12 months, you need to swap out the battery for a fresh one. This is because installed batteries slowly drain over time, even if you haven't been using them. With the Avent, though, the batteries drain in mere days. We found that within a few days of installing the batteries, we couldn't get them to work for more than a few minutes before the unit just shut down due to low batteries.

I called Philips Avent customer service, and their answer was such a disappointment. They acknowledged that batteries installed in the baby unit will be drained in a short time. So, they recommend keeping the batteries separate. If the power goes out, you have to open up the unit, install the batteries, and then remove them again when the power is on again.

This defeats the purpose, doesn't it? If the power goes out at night and you're asleep, the baby unit will fail either because you've removed the batteries as the manufacturer recommends, or because you left the batteries in and they're dead.

This design flaw knocks what would be a 5-star rating down to 3 stars.

Couldn't ask for more, very pleased
As brand new parents we wanted some piece of mind with our monitor but didn't want the tempation of watching a video monitor all the time. The Philips Avent monitor has been perfect. We have had no problems with it what so ever and I think it has spoiled us. If we take it to another person's house and put him down for a nap/sleep the other parents marvel at the range and clarity of our monitor. We are very confident when we turn it on. Our range has been up to a block away in the city and even farther in the burbs. It was more expensive but it remains one of the best purchases we've made. The battery lasts very long, we often go days with out remembering to charge it without any problems. It is lightweight and small. I like being able to use it as a intercom as well. This is my 1st internet review of a product, I wanted to make sure I gave this monitor the props it deserves.

Adult monitor, too
Works fine. We use it to monitor a diabetic's Continuous Glucose Monitor - its beeps are not loud enough to wake a sound sleeper. At top volume, it does wake me over my CPAP (boy do we have devices). Ambient noise is not an issue for us, due to the CPAP.

Other reviewers commented that the monitor goes to sleep, only waking up after a few seconds of noise, when set to lower than maximum volume. If true, this would be a major issue for us, except that ours is always at top volume.

DECT is a big plus in this situation, both for clarity and privacy. Since the mobile unit is always plugged in and stationary, this model is the right one for us. For monitoring a baby, I'd prefer Philips Avent Digital Screen Baby Monitor with DECT Technology or maybe Philips AVENT DECT Baby Monitor with Temperature and Humidity Sensors, SCD530, White / Blue, both of which feature charging cradles.

The Best
I LOVE this monitor. There is absolutely ZERO interference since it operates on its own frequency. The sound is crystal-clear. I have no idea what other reviewers are talking about when they say the volume is too low on this monitor. Perhaps they have the base too far away from the crib? I think the volume is excellent on this monitor--I can hear my baby BREATHING and the monitor is on a shelf next to her crib. The monitor holds a charge for about 11 hours and has a really long range. I also love that it lights up when it detects noise....that way when I am blow-drying my hair and can't listen to it, I can just watch it to see if my daughter woke up. I highly recommend this product.