SO I need to take some video from You Tube and put it into a format I can play on a TV without the video being disgustingly grainy...
Any suggestions?
Good luck -- unless the video you are getting from youtube is uploaded in higher quality.
Shit in = Shit out.
you can pull the raw flash/flv video using downloadhelper (http://www.downloadhelper.net/) for firefox and you can use any flv converter (http://www.google.com/search?q=flv+converter&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a) to transcode it to another format, but the quality isn't going to get any better than what you download.
That's what I was afraid of. Oh well...guess a new bar doesn't get to play all the funny Bud Light commercials on their big screen.