Well folks, IMHO, the small formats are supported by amatuers, and they have bought into color.(posted 8223 days ago)The large formats are supported by industry, and when they stop using something, that's it. There just ain't enough of us LF types to support Kodak production.
The idea of Kodak licensing out certain film types to a niche producer sounds OK, but I seem to remember several varieties of BRILLIANT paper that resulted from that, and I can't say all were an improvement.