OTA capabilities

My husband and I were thinking of buying one of the Vizio black Friday tv deals just to get a larger tv. In the past I had always understood that Vizio TVs were pretty good. In doing some research now, though, it appears they are not so good now. My husband mainly watches tv with an ota antenna and only really streams on occasion or for football games on ESPN. He is not real tech savvy and likes to be able to just turn on the tv and have the ota channels pop right up. I have read on other threads that you can bypass the hassle of going through the tv interface and all by just not ever hooking the tv up to the internet to begin with. Is this still true for the new Vizio TVs out currently today? Is there another brand that would be more suitable for a non technical person who mainly uses an antenna? From what I can see, there only appears to be "smart" TVs available now and you need to go through some hoops for all of them to watch antenna tv. I, unlike him, am pretty tech savvy, but I'm not always around to help him out. lol.