1990osu said:

^^Here's a good analogy: Why do a painting when you can just take the same picture with an HD camera?

This is a great point. Photography killed the painting industry. It still survives, but instead of owning the entire visual medium, now it is only one part--an expensive, specialty part. Have you ever bought a painting from an artist? Not a lithograph--that's just a reproduction, and applies equally to film, or illustration or painting. You could buy a $1200 painting--or buy a $200 litho. Almost everyone alive does not own any orginal paintings. If they own anything it is a lithograph--a photograph of a painting. The reason being, once photography came around there was no point. Why spend a month's paycheque when you can get a photo or a litho for a fraction of the price? So it became a speciality collectors thing that almost no one today truely supports.