Mohu Leaf 50 Indoor HDTV Antenna (formerly Leaf Ultimate)
- Amplified with Clean Peak filter technology: most sophisticated amplifier on the market that removes unwanted RF signals and boosts the ones you want
- Modeled after a discrete mud flap antenna designed for the U.S. military
- Reversible, paintable, and easy to install
- Multi-directional; no pointing needed
- 50 mile range
Meet the Mohu Leaf 50 — Now in Frustration-Free Packaging!
The Mohu Leaf 50 (formerly Leaf Ultimate) is the amplified version of the world’s first paper-thin HDTV antenna. This omni-directional antenna reaches out in a 50-mile radius from your home to bring you the most popular OTA TV shows, news and sports, on both network and local television in full 1080 HD – for FREE. No need for cable or satellite fees to watch stations like PBS, ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox, with each network having its own digital sub-channels for maximum content. The Leaf 50 is derived from advanced U. S. Military technology and is combined with Mohu’s CleanPeakTM filter technology to eliminate unwanted cellular or FM signals.
The Mohu Leaf 50 Is The Premier Choice For Cord-Cutters Everywhere
The Leaf 50 comes with a 16 ft. cable, 15dB gain antenna amplifier and includes an antenna amplifier with CleanPeak Filtering technology. With CleanPeak, the amplifier filters out cellular and FM signals, letting you pull in a clearer picture, receive more channels, reduce dropouts and increase your overall viewing experience. The amplifier’s patent pending USB powering option boasts an impressive 15dB of gain across the entire television broadcasting band, allowing the weakest signals to be received. The amplified antenna turns on and off with your television when using the TV’s USB port to power the amplifier. Coupled with the clarity of over-the-air (OTA) broadcast signals, this delivers a superior picture quality than is possible through the compressed cable or satellite broadcast signals.
Popular Channels & Shows
Depending on what’s broadcast in your area, you’ll soon be able to watch popular national TV networks and local TV shows at no cost. With the Mohu Leaf 50 you no longer have to pay high monthly cable or satellite bills to enjoy your favorite shows. The Leaf 50 can pull in all of your local news, weather, sitcoms, kids and sports programming with NO monthly contract or bills.
Top-Rated Antenna for Cutting the Cord
Cable rates increased 30% in 5 years, 3x the rate of inflation. The top 96 out of 100 most viewed shows on television are broadcast over-the-air in the United States according Nielsen. Plus with free over-the-air television you will get better HD picture quality than you can get with cable or satellite. Digital television broadcasts are uncompressed, resulting in the best picture quality offered today. The Leaf has proven itself to be the category leader in performance and style by numerous independent tests and reviews. Top reviews of the Mohu Leaf 50 include CNet, Yahoo, CNBC, HDTV Magazine, PC World and dozens more!
Setup and product details
- Easy as Plug. Power. Scan.
- Plug the 16 ft. high-performance digital cable into the back of your television
- Place the Leaf in a desired location
- Scan for channels in your television menu
- Try a few locations, scanning each time
- Enjoy HD programming for free
- Product Dimensions: 2 in X 1 in X .5 in
- Gain: 15 dB (min)
- Frequency Coverage: VHF-Lo, VHF-Hi, UHF TV (for North America)
- Power requirements: 5V DC @ 150mA
- Noise Figure: < 2 dB
- Output IP3: 37.5 dBm
- Operating Temperature: -40C – +85C (-40F – +185F)
- ESD protected
- Cord Length: 10.5 in
- Connector: 75 ohm F connector
Disclaimer
Channel reception will vary based on what is broadcast in your area, your distance from broadcast towers, and any geographical obstructions between you and the towers. Before you buy, use Mohu’s web tool to see what channels are available in your area. Channel reception depends primarily on geographical location and terrain. ESPN and FOX News (among other cable channels) are not available via free HDTV broadcast.
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List Price: $ 89.99
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Amplified ideal antenna for cord cutters – UPDATED 3/10/15,
Customer Video Review Length:: 4:30 Mins
Prior to this purchase I tried the Mohu Leaf Paper-Thin Indoor HDTV Antenna – Made in USA and Leaf Plus Amplified Indoor HDTV Antenna at my home. Neither product worked better than the Philips SDV2750/27 Amplified Superior Digital Design Antenna, and none of the three could pull in more than five channels.
In other words – they didn’t work for me.
When I saw the Mohu line had a new one – the Mohu MH-004092 Leaf Ultimate (currently the Mohu Leaf 50], I was pessimistically optimistic that with a 50 mile range it might be able to reach the tower located 43 miles away and pull in a couple more channels. TVFool had indicated I needed an outdoor antenna to grab over-air signals in my area, but I decided to give this one a try and if it didn’t work – I could always return it.
“Mohu Ultimate – A Nice Surprise!”
Unboxed it looks and feels very much like the other two Leaf products (white on one side, black on the other), but it has an amplifier dongle, that is powered by USB. You can use the included AC adapter (with USB port on it) to power it by AC, or you can plug into a USB port on your amplifier or TV to power it. I chose the AC adapter, and plugged mine into a surge protected power strip. A blue light on the amplifer came on when it was powered up.
Directions for the Leaf 50 are simple and straightforward. There’s not a lot to get confused about, which is great. Anyone can set this antenna up!
Assembly is as easy as attaching the cords per the directions, powering up the amplifier, and hanging the Leaf in the best spot for over air reception. Finding the optimum placement for the HDTV antenna to work its magic is the tricky part!
It took me 5 attempts at hanging the Leaf 50 (taking note of channels received after auto-tune and the signal quality of those channels) before I finally found the perfect spot to receive all of the HD channels in my area from CBS, NBC, FOX, CW, PBS and ABC.
Hung 7′ away from other electronics, about 1″ down from the ceiling, and about 5″ from the corner on an East facing wall with a large window opposite the wall, the Mohu Ultimate did what none of the others could accomplish – give me FREE TV in HD.
The over-air HD channels I’d been hoping I could pull in from 43 miles away, through mountains, were now mine without being hooked up to cable! Crystal clear reception on all available HD channels, with no dropped signals or pixalation. Truly amazing!
That was something the Mohu Leaf Paper-Thin Indoor HDTV Antenna – Made in USA and Leaf Plus Amplified Indoor HDTV Antenna had not been able to accomplish for me, due to shorter range and perhaps never before finding ‘just the right spot’ to place the Mohu for optimum reception.
However, depending upon where you live, you might be able to save yourself some money. If you live in a urban area with lots of towers nearby (25 mile range), you may not need the ‘Ultimate’ and its amplified range. Consider saving a bit of money and going with the Mohu Leaf Metro HDTV Antenna first, after you check with TVFool and/or antennaweb for signal strength and range in your area.
The Mohu Leaf 50 HDTV Antenna (formerly Mohu Ultimate) is a top notch device that works as promised when correctly placed for optimium performance. It’s build quality is solid, and it’s easy to set-up and use.
Do I wish it was a tad less pricey? Sure, but for its unobtrusive good looks, outstanding performance and money it’s going to save me in the long run over cable – it’s worth it!
I will be using the Leaf, and a Roku device to stream Netflix, HuluPlus and Amazon Instant Video. That combination will save me approximately $100 a month in cable bills. Something I thought I’d never be able to do with a very simple looking indoor antenna.
Definitely worth a look no matter where you live – rural, suburban or city dwellers – if you want to cut ties with cable TV…
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|Rare: Better Indoor TV Antenna!,
Every $30 plus unit I’ve found recommended by buyer comments, I’ve ended up returning as the Big Lots unit did as good or better. Then, I ordered the Leaf. I did expect some improvement given the many very high buyer ratings.I was also thinking I may end up returning it. 1st, I was sceptical. As one buyer here put it: “it didn’t look like much”. Paper thin and paper light sealed in plastic. I thought “what the heck?
I paid $44 for this?” My first placements and tuner scanning left me unimpressed. Then, I read the sheet that came with it. It read: ‘best results from positioning it cable down. I recalled one buyer wrote she taped it up, I grabbed a thin tall box and taped the Leaf to it, so the cable could be at the bottom and the leaf hang down. I could move the box around the top of my entertainment system, which permits me to face the Leaf out a window.
This time when I ran ‘scan channels’ I was amazed. My TV found 14 channels! I was seriously impressed as I sampled the channels. I got 19 channels and three more (two of them analog) that do not work well. I cannot wait to connect a low power amplifier. With that I am sure I will get 22 channels, all with small indoor antenna. I cannot wait to see what happens when I position the Leaf to pick up stations to the North of me. I live in Canton, Michigan, an hour from Toledo, Ohio. I would not have believed it, if a nieghbor told me he could get one Toledo channel with an indoor antenna. I am getting three! I am also getting Canada’s CBC 9, an analogue channel.
NOTE. I find many times buyers blame on an antenna, a fault I never see mentioned in buyer “reviews”. I am surprised neither antenna sellers or makers educate buyers about this very real possibility, namely not all tuners are the same, not all tuners in the same TV model line work properly. For instance, I bought a Haier 10″ portable as a gift recently. When I tested it, the TV worked fine. I bought another one a week later as a gift. The second Haier had a defective tuner. It finds only 2 to 3 channels with the same antenna and same locations and positions where I tested the first Haier I bought. The first TV found 9-11 channels and play them well, except for one or two. Also, the second tuner came up with different results each time I ran scan.
When you find your results with a highly buyer rated antenna is poor, you want to make sure the problem isn’t your tuner, not your antenna or your location, the electronics near the area, your house construction, etc. I point this out because people mention every possibility beginning with sorry antenna and including where their home is, walls in their home, etc., but NEVER suspect the tuner (Or a neighbor’s overpowered poorly tuned illegal CB radio station). Consider also Solar activity & atmospheric activity, at the time. that may deflect TV signals.
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|No difference between ultimate & original, non-amplified Mohu Leaf,
Since I know that I am not located in a twilight zone of poor television reception, I was quite surprised to discover that – if anything – the basic non-amplified Mohu Leaf that has now been in service since 2011 actually outperformed the Mohu Leaf Ultimate!
To be certain that I hadn’t received either a defective antenna or amplifier, I even exchanged my first Mohu Ultimate for another one and yet I still obtained exactly the same disappointing results.
Testing both antennas in precisely the same location that I already had determined to give me the best reception in 2011, the Mohu Ultimate did receive about 5 more stations than the basic Mohu Leaf antenna, but since these stations were essentially all unusable (poor signal strength, etc.) that really doesn’t count as an improvement.
At a minimum, what I had been hoping for was to pull in the one major station in my area that the basic leaf never could receive – channel 3 the local NBC affiliate. However, this just didn’t happen.
Furthermore, the stations that I did receive (about 44 total with some unusable, some Spanish, some duplicate – about 20+ distinct and usable English stations) actually all had greater signal strength with the non-amplified leaf, just about one bar more on the television signal intensity meter.
Now don’t get me wrong, the Mohu Leaf is a great antenna in whatever version you choose to purchase it, but if the ultimate version doesn’t yield any noticeable improvement over the basic, non-amplified model why spend an additional $50.00? Just stick with the already very impressive original Mohu Leaf!
Bottom line: If you’re considering purchasing a Mohu leaf antenna (a very wise decision to help you cut the cable cord!), don’t assume that the ultimate version will necessarily yield the best or ultimate results. It might be wise to try the original Mohu leaf first and then, depending on the quality of your reception, either purchase the upgraded antenna or save the extra money for something else.
Here on Amazon with 30-day returns, it’s a simple thing to order both antennas and then make an objective head-to-head comparison like I did, before making your final decision on which antenna to purchase and which to return.
Alternatively, you can buy the basic non-amplified Mohu Leaf and use it with a Mohu Jolt amplifier – in combination the same thing as the ultimate antenna – or just purchase the new Mohu Ultimate antenna alone and then connect or disconnect the included amplifier to make an appropriate comparison to determine what works best for you!
Finally, if you’re a really smart consumer what you’ll do is purchase one of these nifty indoor HD antennas like the Mohu Leaf discussed here (also worth considering is the Terk HDTVa Antenna Pro – see my review here on Amazon) to receive TV channels the old fashioned and free way via the airwaves and then pair it with the newly available game-changing Roku 3 streaming device (see my review) which will enable you to cut the cable company/dish cord for good.
I have done this and have been cable-free since August 2011 and am loving it! You too can liberate yourself from cable company/dish slavery and save the cost of a brand new HDTV every year (about $1200.00 annually). Go ahead, cut the cord and finally set yourself free!
Note that if you do decide to pursue a cable-free, dish-free TV lifestyle, don’t skimp on the broadband connection that you will need to ensure smooth streaming with minimal buffering; this is especially important with a WiFi connection. Sufficient bandwidth is essential for the Roku 3 to provide an enjoyable TV viewing experience; it can’t work miracles without it.
UPDATE in January 2015
I have finally been able to receive the local NBC affiliate (channel 3) without any problems for the past month or so; this was previously impossible with the Mohu Leaf.
Apparently, the prior inability to receive this channel must have been due to broadcast-related problems at the station itself or difficulties associated with the intervening geography that the signal had to transit before arriving at my location, because absolutely nothing has changed here on my end since first installing this antenna.
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