Keep Your Internet Off My Things

I'll have to add this to my list. It sounds deliciously dystopic

Hrm... Much earlier 'prior art' :-)

[1] https://slate.com/technology/2015/02/philip-k-dick-s-1969-no...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubik

Sadly, not really. The last time I looked the only thing I could really find was commercial grade TVs.

Sceptre brand TVs in the US have no smarts and are widely available.

But I could - happily.

They do: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26273169

what's a tv

Sure. Take an "smart TV" and never connect it to the internet. It's pretty dumb then.

Smart TVs are not made because consumers want them but because to add advertisements to smart apps is a new revenue stream for TV makers. One that continues after the TV has been sold.

I bought a commercial TV from Samsung because it had basically no smart capability (it has some very limited smart features but they are easily disabled and ignored). I wanted something that would just not get in the way and would let me boot right into my Apple TV. Maybe it is not the traditional "dumb" TV, but it was nice to not have a ton of pop-ups and ads on a TV I paid for.

What exactly do you mean by "couldn't live without a smart tv" ? I'd say most people would do fine with a regular TV, and then hooking up whatever video playing devices they choose. It's marketing that pushes them into the high-friction trap of an integrated device where they can only reduce surveillance by throwing away the whole TV.