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Watch virtually any modern TV show, and you'll see virtually peice of electronics shown is "vintage."
My girlfriend really likes Sex and the City, and from the little bit I've seen, the producers don't realize any electronics were made after 1975. Seems like all the telephones are rotary, and I've seen an old Philco-Ford set, a Chromacolor II, and an old GE AA(?) chassis set. I think the funniest part of the show is seeing someone once change the channel on a MANUALLY-TUNED set with a remote control. This wasn't a space command set, or an ultrasonic remote.
I wonder, in 30 years if they'll still be using the same old Zeniths and RCAs as props or if they'll be simulating TV pictures on flat flat screen sets. (Which of course, they won't have to go scrounging through the trash of thrift stores for those. They can just get the sets out of network exec's homes after they throw their coke can at the screen after they get pissed off at the dribble they approved for their own networks!!)
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