how do you like rewind and seeking capabilities?
For audio, look up a really old program called alsaplayer that could play forward, backward and at any speed.
It's not "digital" that makes rewinding and fast forwarding crap on crap devices and services, it's the lack of care for user experience.
It's funny they were included in this list, because they are strongly against including a good rewind feature. Modern video codecs refer back to previous frames a lot, so it has to be decoded forwards. It would take a ton of RAM to keep the decoded frame data for "previous" frames so you could play them in reverse. With some video files you won't notice a delay while skipping around, but some you will.