Mobile TV hasn't even been launched in most countries yet, and there's already new technologies ready to take its place. DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcasting for Handhelds) was selected by the European Union as its official standard for Mobile TV.

At this year's IFA in Berlin, Alcatel-Lucent has demonstrated a technology dubbed DVB-SH (Digital Video Broadcast – Satellite services to Handhelds), which contains MPE-iFEC (Multi-Protocol Encapsulation - inter-burst Forward Error Correction), a powerful error-correction coding that improves the quality of broadcast mobile TV reception in hybrid satellite and terrestrial networks.

The technology can be used in any frequency spectrum below 3GHz, including UHF, L band and S band, and in terrestrial, satellite or hybrid networks.

What this means for us is that we'll have better TV quality if this technology is deployed. If you're in Berlin, you should check out some of the modified Sagem MyMobileTV at the conference, which are being used to showcase the technology.

Press release after the jump.

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