Cool! Now I can finally make all those Rockin DVD's to send my family this Christmas!

It's little threads like this and the good responses to which that remind me, while I aspire to be, I'm really just a wannabe geek.

I have had luck using this site in the past:

http://vixy.net/

You enter the URL of the online video you wish to save, select the format you wish to save it in (MOV, MP4, avi), and it does the rest.

http://keepvid.com/

Copy the address of the youtube file, paste it in their little bar there, select youtube from the dropdown menu, hit download. It then gives you a hotlink to the file which you right click and "save as". Definitely change the name of the file because it just calls it "get_video". You can either download their little player, or if you have flash you can watch it that way.

Slightly related note - our Wii allows us to surf the web via a browser created by Opera, which means we can watch YouTube and other streaming stuff on our TV. The speed is great, the quality is good, and it's wonderfully big!

Oddly, photos take forever to load on the Wii browser, but video is just as fast, if not faster, than the laptop.