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Film is not obsolete. The corporations are pulling the plug on it. REELS of film are becoming obsolete because even “revival house” theaters are scrap piling their film projectors and going “digital projection only”.

Projected film puts your brain into a different psychotropic state than projected video does (one is strobed still images seen in rapid succession, the other is alternating scan lines beamed at you).

Just as fluorescent lighting is not making filament light bulbs obsolete (corporate legislation is prohibiting their continued production).

Vinyl was declared “obsolete” by a music industry (that happened to also be conglomerate owned by electronics firms hellbent on selling new technology). They got about 10-15 years of inflated profits reselling the public albums they already owned at market colluding higher pricing (it cost more to make a cassette tape than a CD but CDs were price fixed to almost double the street price of a cassette release).

CDs are now going away but vinyl is still in demand (new and used).

I’m tired of the “better mouse traps” that are not better and have not replaced the previous technologies by consumer demand for the change.