The first part of their spacewalk was spent replacing film in the solar observatory.

Kodak also has a new "digitization strategy" for using digital technology to enhance, not replace, conventional film.

"The new systems just replace film with an electronic detector."

The phrase itself is now obsolete, since videotape (and, more recently, digital video) has replaced film as the medium of choice for news reporting.

Local news is ever more dependent on live coverage; "live at 11" has replaced "film at 11" as the catch phrase that defines the genre.

Steve Sasson was reprimanded by Kodak for saying that someday the digital would replace film!

Now, of course, the 200-inch also has C.C.D. cameras replacing photographic film, so it, too, is enormously improved.

She said, correctly, that the Mavica would not replace 35-millimeter cameras and film.

(The C.C.D has largely replaced photographic film in astronomical cameras.)

Television didn't replace film or radio, but it did change them.