Technological Determinism - The DVD

Is the DVD really better than VHS? It is smaller, more compact and better sound and picture quality but there is a lot of faults with the technology. Such as,ZONING!! I remember being really excited about going to America so I could buycheap DVDs (As well as traveling around and seeing the country... but mainly for the DVDs) Then the sales guy asked what Zone is NZ? I had no idea... So he was like "ahhh I don't think you should buy any because I don't think that they will work in your DVD player". I came back to NZ empty handed, only to findthat my DVD player was multi-zoned and it could of played the DVDs from the US!They must waste so much money putting DVDs into 4 zones - and why do they still put the DVDs into zones if DVD players are now multi-zoned? Never had that confusing problem with VHS!

Also, how much time has been wasted in lectures because the lecturer can't cue the DVD to the part they want? I mean, DVDs might be better to watch it all theway through but for scanning and searching, the VHS is much better... So Silly!

I'm not really sure why I buy DVDs instead of Videos to watch - because I don't really care about sound and picture quality (Along as it is watchable) but I do like the menu functions on the DVD - and I am learning Spanish so it's quite cool to put "sex and the city" into "sexo en nuevo york"... Hmmm yes my love-hate relationship with the DVD.