Yle abandons its basic broadcasts between Monday and Tuesday night, which means that over 100,000 households are darkened by YLE channels. IT Konkari does not consider the HD transition now in a hurry, but tells what went wrong 18 years ago.
In an interview with Iltalehti, non -fiction writer Petteri Järvinen remembers how the previous big change in Finnish television technology was to go under the bench. Anu Kivistö, Joel Maalmi
- YLE will stop basic broadcasts 1.4. YLE channels will not be visible without the HD receiver.
- IT Konkari remembers how the previous big TV change was to end in the stomach.
- This time, according to the expert, the change has not been hasted and has been announced for a long time.
In Finland, on Tuesday, April 1, 2025, the basic television broadcasts of YLE will end in both the antenna and cable network.
In the future, watching YLE channels requires that households can be found with a TV with HD tuner (DVB-T2) or at least an HD digibox. At the end of June, traditional SD broadcasts will also end from commercial channels, and in Finland you will not be able to watch a traditional TV without an HD receiver.
HD transition only affects television broadcasts, so old TVs can still be used to watch streaming services or, for example, with video players or game consoles just as before.
New TV or a set -top box?
IT expert and non-fiction writer Petteri Järvinen In an interview with Iltalehti, it reminds us that if you have a tablet and technical skills at home, you can watch YLE channels live straight from the arena in the future. However, this will not work for commercial channels.
If it is at any point, Järvinen encourages the investment he has stated on new television, as it is in any case ahead before long.
– Playing with set -top boxes is always a bit tricky when you need two remote controls, Järvinen explains.
“Quite a Circus”
Järvinen says that television’s HD transition will evoke memories from the early 2000s.
– At that time, Finland wanted to be a pioneer on digital television. YLE’s mission network was sold on digital and the revenue financed YLE’s digital broadcasts, which were very rare to watch because there were few digiboxes and their subtitles did not work. Nokia lost his interest in TV jars as mobile phones took all the attention, Järvinen recalls.
The analogue mission network was the first in the world in Finland on September 1, 2007. According to Järvinen, at that time, there was a hasty manner.
-A basic error was made long ago when the first digital transition was made too early and the expected hd technology was not expected.
Järvinen says the first digital transition was a “quite a circus”.
– It was already known at the time that the basic resolution distribution network would not be worth new, as HD would come in a few years. But when it was decided and wanted to be the first, so it was done.
The fall of the price of flat screen TV prices at the same time was a lucky coincidence. This also saved from a bigger stomach.
– In any case, people bought new TVs. They were already built -in with the digital chef and no boxes were needed.
15 years of hd time
If the digital transition was done in a hurry, the same cannot be said of the ongoing HD transition.
According to Järvinen, the HD era of television can be considered to have begun around 2010, when the DVB-T2 broadcast technology had been standardized and the TVs with HD tuner began to enter the market.
-I remember that for a long time, TVs were sold, with display panels at HD level, but in the absence of an HD tuner, only a high definition-level image could only be viewed from a blu-ray player or a computer.
With HD broadcasts, incompatible TVs are starting to be old and in any case close to the end of their life cycle.
According to Järvinen, even the youngest devices are ten years old.
-However, there have been genuine HD tullars for about 15 years, which is a long time in consumer electronics.
In addition, citizens have long been announced about changes in HD transition.
Technology expires faster than ever
According to Traficom, there are still about 100,000 television households in Finland, but there are no HD-compatible receiver. This is about four percent of all Finnish TV economies. Until a year ago, the number was double.
According to Järvinen, the changes in the Finnish HD transition are mainly about older people. Among the younger population, watching the so -called linear television has long decreased, and many younger adults have stopped watching the traditional TV.
Renovation of devices may seem unnecessary and forced by those who own fully functional TVs. However, according to Järvinen, Finns are not a particularly resistant people, but rather the opposite.
He has, in principle, been able to appreciate new technology in Finland, and in Central Europe, for example, “slowness forces” are greater. However, the digitalisation of information technology has led to technically more technically expiring equipment.
– Older people got used to the fact that radio, magnetophone, television or phone remained usable for decades because they were expensive purchases and technology did not change.
– In the case of a refrigerator or an electric mixer, they can be used as long as they work. Interactivity devices, such as computers, phones and TVs, always work with others, and then the majority determines how development is progressing, Järvinen says.