Sweden TV: How to watch TV4, SVT & MTG abroad?
SVT, TV4-Gruppen, and MTG are great Swedish channels with lots of great series and shows. However, due to distribution agreements, Swedish TV isn’t available everywhere, meaning you can’t stream the content outside Sweden.
While you could theoretically use a VPN to access Swedish TV from a country where it’s unavailable, this goes against the platform’s terms of service and could also be considered copyright infringement. My team and I don’t condone these activities.
If you want to protect your traffic and watch Swedish TV simultaneously, there are only a handful of capable VPNs. After tests, our international team found ExpressVPN works best with Swedish TV, as it provides reliable security without compromising speeds. Plus, you can try ExpressVPN risk-free, since it’s backed by a [VDS: MBG]-day money-back guarantee.
Editors’ Note: Intego, Private Internet Access, CyberGhost and Expressvpn are owned by Kape Technologies, our parent company.
SVT (Swedish Television)
SVT runs lots of news and entertainment programming along with regional favorites, non-Swedish broadcasts, and children’s programming across five channels, with SVT1 and SVT2 being the most prominent. It incorporates SVT Play, a video-on-demand and live-stream service that is available only to residents of Sweden. SVT Play can be used on iPhones, Androids, Blackberry devices, or PC/MAC computers via a web browser. To get past the geographic restriction typically requires the use of a VPN or a Smart DNS.
TV4-Gruppen
TV4-Gruppen is Sweden’s largest TV power and offers its video-on-demand services with its TV4 Play app. TV4 Play also has some availability overseas, including its daily morning news show, the weather channel, and the country’s parliamentary sessions.
MTG
MTG offers international and local series, shows, and films, along with two male-centric channels full of sports, dramas, sitcoms, movies, and documentaries. Another channel offers dramas, foreign documentaries, and lifestyle programming. Its digital video content includes sports, programming, and online games.
Smart DNS Solution
A Smart DNS can be employed to watch Swedish TV while being protected. A Smart DNS Proxy works by changing the DNS of your device when you connect to the internet. This means that the proxy will change your data to a dedicated server.
While connected to a Smart DNS, your data appears to be coming from the DNS server instead of your computer, so there’s better protection without almost any loss of speed.
However, you should know that even though a Smart DNS is more secure than nothing, it doesn’t encrypt your connection, so it doesn’t provide the best protection out there.
Virtual Private Network (VPN) Solution
A VPN provides excellent security and flexibility for accessing Swedish TV while keeping all your online activity private and anonymous. It works by establishing a secure “tunnel” between your device and a distant server situated wherever you choose.
The tunnel sends encrypted data from your device to the VPN server that contains requests for data and information that you are seeking to access online. When the information reaches the remote server, it is decrypted, and you are given an IP address by the VPN server. Only then are your requests sent to the internet. Many VPNs have high levels of security, such as never keeping logs from your session or featuring a kill switch which will activate if your connection ever drops.
As you download information, it first goes to the VPN server, it is encrypted, and then it’s transmitted to you. Only when it reaches your device it’s decrypted for your use.
Important! While a VPN could hypothetically be used to get a Swedish-based IP address from anywhere, doing so for the purposes of streaming Swedish TV from anywhere goes against each platform’s terms of service. It could also constitute copyright infringement, so we don’t condone this kind of activity.
