HD-kanalen continued on satellite, mostly broadcasting test films and promos from SVT HD and an experimental simulcast of The Marriage of Figaro in August 2006.

In late 2006 SVT HD broadcast the Swedish dramas En uppstoppad hund, Mästerverket, Snapphanar and AK3 and the movies Girl with a Pearl Earring, 21 Grams and House of Sand and Fog.

In early 2007, SVT HD broadcast the BBC series Planet Earth, the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 and dramas.

[3] As the company was gearing up launch HD simulcasts of SVT1 and SVT2, the terrestrial transmissions in the capital were terminated on March 1.

On June 17, 2010, SVT received permission from the government to start broadcasting two HDTV channels in the digital terrestrial network.

On September 20, 2010, SVT HD was discontinued and replaced by a full-time simulcast of SVT1 in HDTV format on all platforms.