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Or simply add a # at the end of the hyperlink.

However, this only works with videos that were uploaded fairly recently. YouTube didn't used to store a "high quality" version.

Well, it's progress. Maybe in 10-15 years YouTube will finally catch up with the quality of real TV. 

On ur 2 links quality is the same... 

On ur 2 links quality is the same... 

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no, it's not the same.
the first one's standard, the second one's not. there's a very clear difference. just look at the specs (for instance the second one has stereo sound whereas typical crappy youtube audio is alwasy some 64 kb/s mono. )

besides, when you click the second link (the one with "&fmt=18"), you should see the option "watch in standard quality" under the screen (under "views"). if you can't see that then obviously it's not working for you and for some reason you can only watch the standard quality stream.)
perhaps it's your own browser settings or something, that prevents you to see the difference(?). or, perhaps adding "&fmt=18" doesn't work where you live(?) - just like adding "#" that lostflower4 suggested doesn't seem to work for me.
youtube does have some restrictions on what videos you can watch depending on where you're located, so perhaps this works a bit similarly. i don't know.
anyway, there is a notable difference between the links i posted.


i'm not interested in downloading anything from youtube, since the quality is just so bad there even at it's best. personally i don't see any point in  collecting low bitrate .flv files on my HD.  but i do find the "HQ" option useful and handy when watching random clips over there.
it makes it a bit more bearable.