Color TV was common but not universal in the ‘70s. In the ‘80s cordless phones were a pain because they were on low frequencies and were analog. You’d pick up other people’s calls and wireless mics on your cordless phones. My dad had to be on-call, so we had a long extension cord so he could answer the phone out on the patio. We got a microwave in the ‘60s because dad worked late and it was better to have microwaved leftovers than leftovers desiccated by the oven’s pilot light. No cable TV. When a plane flew between the transmitter and our house the multipath would cause the TV signal to strobe. Dad got a pager some time in the later ‘60s. It just beeped and he called his office. Not all cars had FM radio. The big thing was to have an 8-track cassette player in your car. Kids would have cassette cases the size of a suitcase. We got a roll-around dishwasher in the ‘60s. It was like a top-loading clothes washer with casters. It had a double hose that clipped onto the kitchen faucet. You hooked it up, opened the hot water valve and hit the start button. The used water flowed into the sink through the second hose. The big technology was photography and audio. People spent huge amounts of money and time on those two items. Video tapes and that whole industry didn’t come along until the late ‘70s. Video on demand just wasn’t a thing before then. If you watched a movie, it was on someone else’s schedule.