I agree that video had a much more intuitive "feel" to the forward and rewind functions, and on a good player was really fast to use. DVD though ususally gives you 2x, 4x, 8x and 20x forward AND rewind with no loss of quality - (or a subset of those) at least it does on my 3 DVD players and on all players on the PC desktop. The exception is some awkward files which will not allow any fast forward or rewind at all when played in desktop players.
I also miss being able to edit on professional video recorders though, no-one evens wants to hear of that format anymore.