Now the TV operator Comhem switches off the analogue broadcasts via the TV socket.
It is digital television that applies in the future.
The transition has meant a stormy month for the company and many of its analogue customers, according to Comhem, around 500,000 households.
Many need help
TV retailers that Aftonbladet spoke to notice a large increase in customers who need help switching to digital viewing, or who are looking for a new TV.
- Many older people, those who are plus 70 years old, do not have digital TV but they have sat and watched the analogue broadcast.
20-30 percent of these viewers have such old TV sets that they can not convert them to digital TV, says Per Erlandsson at Ystad TV and antenna service to Aftonbladet.
Criticism from the Minister
The change has been announced from Comhem for a long time, but many customers were only reached by the information when subtitles with instructions began to spin on the TV screen in August.
Several elderly people have expressed concern that they will be completely without TV channels, and feel insecure about bringing help into the home during the current corona pandemic.
Minister of IT and Digitalisation Anders Ygeman (S) has agreed with the criticism, and believes that Comhem is implementing the change at a poorly chosen occasion.
- It is clear that Comhem could not know that the corona pandemic would coincide with the transition.
But the reasonable thing now is that the company postpones the transition until the elderly can really get and receive help at home, Anders Ygeman tells TV4.
Channel search or new device
Comhem has set up a help page for digitization on its website, and welcomes its customers to call the company's customer service.
The message is: If you have a TV that is younger than ten years, it may be enough to do a channel search.
If you are older, you may need a digital box, or you can buy a new TV.