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Digital video broadcasting‐satellite services to handhelds (DVB‐SH) is a new hybrid satellite/terrestrial system for the broadcasting of multimedia services to mobile receivers. To improve the link budget, DVB‐SH uses a long interleaver to cope with land mobile satellite (LMS) channel impairments. Multi‐protocol encapsulation–inter‐burst forward error correction (MPE‐IFEC) is an attractive alternative to the long physical interleaving option of the standard and is suited for terminal receivers with limited de‐interleaving memory. In this paper, we present a tutorial overview of this powerful error‐correcting technique and report new simulation results that show MPE‐IFEC improves the quality of broadcast mobile television (TV) reception. © 2009 Alcatel‐Lucent.