# The Kodak Story: Chapter 11

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kodak-story-chapter-11/609996>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 19, 2012, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kodak-story-chapter-11/609996 "2012-01-19T11:15:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kodak-story-chapter-11/609996/1 "2012-01-19T11:15:35Z")

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Ddamn!

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> Kodak filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Thursday, raising the specter that the 132-year-old trailblazer could become the most storied casualty of a digital age that has whipped up a maelstrom of economic, social and technological change.

]([http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US\_KODAKS\_LEGACY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-01-19-04-04-12](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_KODAKS_LEGACY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-01-19-04-04-12))

I think they mean “the most storied casualty _ **to date** _”.

Does anyone have Kodak in the 2012 death pool? 😛

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kodak-story-chapter-11/609996/2 "2012-01-19T13:05:43Z")

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That’s what you get for not charging outrageous prices for printer ink, I guess…

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**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kodak-story-chapter-11/609996/3 "2012-01-19T13:27:52Z")

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Frankly, I don’t see Kodak surviving. Its only hope of doing so is to shut down its domestic manufacturing and do everything in China.  
The photograpy (film) business is dead-my local camera store hangs on by doing services (video transfer)-their film counter is tiny (though B&W film by Ilford seems to be doing OK).  
They also carry polaroid film (B&W by “The Impossible Project”)-$22.00 for 8 shots-why would someone spend the money for this?  
Koday has too much debt, and no growth.  
RIP Kodak-I predict it will emerge from bankruptcy, only to go under in 3-4 years hence.

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kodak-story-chapter-11/609996/4 "2012-01-19T15:48:16Z")

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> [@ralph124c](#):
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> Frankly, I don’t see Kodak surviving. Its only hope of doing so is to shut down its domestic manufacturing and do everything in China.

They did, mostly. It didn’t help

[http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Avis=A2&Dato=20120119&Kategori=MULTIMEDIA03&Lopenr=201190802&Ref=PH](http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Avis=A2&Dato=20120119&Kategori=MULTIMEDIA03&Lopenr=201190802&Ref=PH)

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**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kodak-story-chapter-11/609996/5 "2012-01-19T18:23:21Z")

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Innovate or die. I’m looking at you Microsoft.