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You’ve just spent $400 on a baby monitor. Now you need a subscription | Once upon a time there was a company called Miku who wasn’t making quite enough money...::Once upon a time there was a company called Miku who wasn't making quite enough money...

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[–] 36 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I had 3 babies and spent $0 on video monitoring. Your baby will be fine. Don't fall for the advertising drama. Babies have been fine for thousands of years with no electronics.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    They've also not been fine.

    SUID Death rate for infants has decreased even since 1990. Baby monitor likely had a role in that.

    FYI not supporting subscription for features a device has in hardware, just saying I'd rather have a monitor that never went off than no monitor and a dead child. There are plenty of alternative devices without subs that cost a lot less to begin with.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    You know what else happened in the 90s? Leaded gas was banned. I'll attribute it to that. Anecdotes don't mean much.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    I'm not saying baby monitors are the only reason for improved SUID rates. I'm saying they likely played a role. Despite your sarcasm, you might also be right that lead could have adversely affected unexplained infant mortality. The point I was trying to make was that baby monitors are not useless devices designed to extract money from you as implied by OP, whose comments by the way, were anecdotal.

    $400 is excessive though. As is a subscription.

    And data on SIDS is freely available. https://www.cdc.gov/sids/data.htm

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