There are some technologies that are just completely dominated by others. Encoding audio on vinyl seems to be one them. From a pure sound perspective its hard to think why one would want to use a sub-par option (ready to stand corrected if true audiophiles have an argument besides nostalgia / retro feeling = valuing the scratches and jumps of the needle).
BUT. Vinyl is not just the audio experience. Its the tangible artifact: the artwork, supporting information, a physical place in a music library etc. For a period CD's/DVD's provided a limited emulation of those attributes but even those are now deprecated. An mp3 or even worse, a stream is not quite the same, is it.
Maybe what we "need" is a reincarnation of a some sort of LaserDisc [0], with the exactly the same form factor as vinyl but dramatically larger storage (including e.g. videos from band performances or other audiovisual material)
BUT. Vinyl is not just the audio experience. Its the tangible artifact: the artwork, supporting information, a physical place in a music library etc. For a period CD's/DVD's provided a limited emulation of those attributes but even those are now deprecated. An mp3 or even worse, a stream is not quite the same, is it.
Maybe what we "need" is a reincarnation of a some sort of LaserDisc [0], with the exactly the same form factor as vinyl but dramatically larger storage (including e.g. videos from band performances or other audiovisual material)
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserDisc