I would like to purchase a television that plays DVD's on a television
screen, however, I dont want the television to be able to play network
stations.

Some friends have suggested that such a product is not made, if this
is the case and you can recommend a product that allows for its
television reception to be locked or disabled this would be suitible
too.

To summerize, these are the specs I am looking for:

Plays DVD's
Doesnt Play network TV stations, we dont have cable so not an issue
21+ inch screen
under $500

If you could provide 2 or 3 options it would be great.

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Clarification of Question by emcp-ga on 04 Sep 2006 20:31 PDT

Hey thanks for your help,

How do you disable the tuner? Is this something I can do at home
without risking injury. I know you arent supposed to tinker with the
insides of TV's.

Will disabling the tuner affect performance of the DVD player?

With these answers the $15 is yours.

Many Thanks
Edward

Dedicated DVD players are usually small and portable. I don't know of
one with a 21-inch screen.

The easiest way to achieve your goal would probably be to buy a
suitable TV/DVD player and disable the tuner.

Another way to go: many televisions come with a menu choice for
"parental control" that enables the user to selectively lock-out
stations of choice, with password protection.

What you want is a monitor.

When JVC or Mitsubishi (can't recall which) came out with their
monster 35-inch tube TV in '89, it was a monitor only-- built with no
tuner. There's gotta be someone who still makes one of these, a
no-tuner TV.

A hotel TV can be programmed to a select few stations and this cannot
be changed without the master remote. I assume you could deprogram all
stations except channel 3 or 4. Look for one with monitor inputs as
well.

I leave it to a Researcher to point you to hotel TVs or TV monitor makers.

Why not hook up a portable DVD player to an LCD computer monitor?

Portable DVD = $100
42" LCD Monitor with RCA inputs (as an example
http://shopus.polaroid.com/shop/public/products/details/dsp_product_details.cfm?product=PCEFLM4201)
= $2200

Since there is no tuner there is no way to receive channels.

Alternately you could look at a DVD/Projector combo such as:
Portable DVD = $100
Optoma H31 (screen size 28" and up) = $699

The reason for choosing a portable DVD player is that they generally
do not have a way of hooking up coax cables to them, thereby avoiding
the TV channel problem.

There are many different LCD monitors that have RCA inputs but no
Coaxial ones so your price range can very.

i think you want a CRT TV which has a build-in DVD player, there is a
company making such product which CRT 14' OR 21'

You can just manually disable the cable/antenna input by crushing the
connector with a pair of vise-grip pliers. Hook up the DVD player via
component or composite cables.

here is what you can do and it would be the easiest.

go to any store and purchase the tv with dvd player in it that you
like most and then when you get home and hook it up go into the
settings and then go into the add and remove channels and remove all
channels from teh to so if you push the channel button it would only
show the input channels.

i use the same thing on my kids tv that i have there dvd player and
nintendo hooked up to as well as my living room tv that i have a
satalite reciever hooked up to.

closed circuit tv's should work too I think
heres 2

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?A=details&kw=ELECM2103X&is=REG&Q=&O=productlist&sku=360232


http://salestores.com/sa70sa21cocc.html