Noob needs help with DNS on Smart TV

Hey everyone, aber a few hours of trying we need help.

My wife and I are living in Switzerland at the moment and we want to watch a series on our LG Smart TV that is only available on Amazon prime in Germany.

Since a direct VPN is not available on our TV, we are using the Smart DNS Option on our VPN Account.

However, even though we set up the connection on our TV (and it shows in the connection options), we are still not able to access the series, hence our location is still Switzerland.

We cannot find any solution online, seemingly nobody has this problem…

Are we missing something? I know it’s not protecting and disguising us as a VPN, but everywhere it says it changes your location to access geo blocked content. We changed the TV region as well.

While screen sharing from our Laptop is an option, we still want it to work on our TV for quality reasons.

Thanks everyone and sorry if we are on the wrong sub or something.

Changing DNS doesn’t change your location (IP-address), as you have noticed. You may need to setup a network VPN solution to also have your TV use a German IP-address as it’s public IP-address.

check out controlD DNS for geo location options and windscribe vpn.