Simply3DWorld.com will be back as will the gallery. Samples in the DVD section are meant to show video quality not content. All the DVD's are encoded the same way and share the same quality settings (except the first t-rex and the first organic modelling, but these are now our oldest DVD's)
The site will be radically changing over the next month or so. Uploads where stopped due to a security issue and will be back up along with the new site sometime in July / August.
David
From a readers' Q and A column in TV GUIDE: "If we get involved in a nuclear war, would the electromagnetic pulses from exploding bombs damage my videotapes?"