Yup. And here in the States eventually, too.
Analog TV is gone. How many years, now — 7 years?
It was helped along by the fact that people plugged their TVs into satellite or cable so the transition was easier for most. Gosh, I haven’t seen a CRT TV in as many years. We retired our last one before the digital switch over. Flat panels are it, now.
Interesting story: my son asked for a PS2 for his birthday so that he could play some old games. It had the old composite output and I was looking for a converter to component or HDMI. Modern flat panel TVs are DVI or HDMI and if you are lucky component video.
Anyway...
Wonder if AM radio will outlast FM... because of the demand for conservative talk radio. :)
I still have two CRT TV’s. They work fine. Seems wasteful to toss them out. TV’s definition keeps getting higher, but my eyesight’s does not.
Old-school gamers are about the last remaining people who want CRT sets though.
I don’t think we’ll follow Finland into all-digital audio. As it is now they can barely move those HD radios. And the size of the audience will plummet if the entry price for a receiver jumps from ten to 142 bucks.
Plus, unlike Finland, we are constantly staging little Trump rebellions against our bureaucrat overlords.
Canada started down the road to DAB about a decade ago, but pulled the plug due to virtually zero demand.