I still prefer laserdisc for "instant accessibility" (no stupid menus to select chapters; no "Easter Egg" features), 50k+ frame image discs (for example art collections or NASA photos, as well as several hundred production still collections for a given film).
Animation transferred to CAV at true "1 frame" freeze frame capability.
Fast foward motion on a CAV disc was truly an accelerated version (forward or reverse) as every single frame was displayed, none of this "CD like" skipping ahead.
And although the resolution may have been "lesser" there is no compression artifacting. DVD has improved in this regard but some companies still fall short in their DVD production.
Yeah. The fast forward on LD's was much, much better than dvd. And the CLV discs (the ones that were only 1/2 hour per side) had remarkable abilities. I had a disk with something like 50,000 pictures of airplanes. Again, pre-divorce. Never did see them all...
Still, DVD is, much better for lots of practical reasons, not the least of which is size and portability.