The high definition ones that have been uploaded in 720p.
YouTube has enabled high quality viewing for all users and if your system is fast enough, and you have a high speed connection, the first thing you should do is visit your Video Playback Quality page and enable the “I have a speedy connection. Always play higher-quality video when it’s available” option. This is apparently a cookie-based setting, which is a bit disappointing (because you have to re-enable it on every computer rather than having it set as a static preference in your YouTube account). Do this, and you’ll always see the best version of a video available.
Now, what if you want to save that high quality YouTube video to your computer?
Forget about using a third-party Web site or software to download 720p video from YouTube - there’s nothing for you to install other than this bookmarklet:
Save this link in your firefox/Safari Browser Bookmark list or Just drag this to your firefox bookmark tab.
Go ahead and create that link into your browser’s Bookmarks (or Favorites) bar. If you’re not familiar with the concept of bookmarklets, they’ve been around forever.
Once this is in your browser’s bookmarks bar, you simply click it when you’re on a YouTube video page that has a 720p (high quality video) that you want to download. You only need click this bookmarklet once. The download doesn’t start - but after clicking this bookmarklet, you should see a new “Download as 720p HD MP4? link in the video information box in the right sidebar of the YouTube page. It’ll be automatically inserted directly beneath the Embed code for that particular video. NOTE: this bookmarklet only works for the 720p videos.
If you want to download any other YouTube video as an MP4, you’ll want to use this bookmarklet: Download YouTube MP4. it should work with any YouTube video.
If you want to thank anybody, thank Google Operating System and Mac OS X Hints for surfacing the bookmarklets. Don’t ask me how to get them to work in anything else. 
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