YA in low resolution

An MPEG4 file version of a 240-pixel (240p) resolution viewer recording of each of the eight episodes of Young Americans (YA) as it was first broadcast in English in 480-pixel (480p) resolution on The WB network in the U.S.A. from July 12 to August 30, 2000, can be viewed in MP4 format at, or downloaded from, The Internet Archive at http://archive.org/details/03_20211016, where it was uploaded at titled "Young Americans (2000) (COMPLETE SERIES)" in October 2021 by an Internet Archive member using the pseudonym, "GrigioGuy."

Each of these eight whole-episode MPEG4 files is between 125 and 155 megabytes in size.  To download, store, or otherwise manipulate them, a personal computer might serve better than a mobile phone.  

However, these eight files as posted on The Internet Archive in MP4 format can readily be viewed on many mobile phones, and seem currently to be the only form in which YA can readily be viewed on a mobile phone.

A downloadable Flash Video (FLV) file version of a 240p resolution viewer recording of each of the eight episodes of YA as it was first broadcast in English in 480p resolution on The WB network in the U.S.A. in 2000 is accessible and downloadable via the link at the bottom of this page, titled "YA 1-8 in English on The WB in 2000, 240p, FLV files."

Each of these eight whole-episode FLV files is between 90 and 130 megabytes in size.  To download, store, watch or otherwise manipulate them, a personal computer might serve better than a mobile phone.

An FLV file can be opened and watched with diverse software applications including VLC, Winamp, and the  Clipchamp app included in recent versions of Microsoft Windows. 

An FLV file can be converted into other formats that tend to take less time to format before each viewing than does an FLV file, but also tend to be larger (i.e., to require more bytes of memory) than does an FLV file.   Other formats into which an FLV file can be converted include MP4, MOV, GIF and the AVI format used by the Windows Media Player included in recent versions of Microsoft Windows.   Any of diverse video converter applications, such as CloudConvert, Moldavi Video Converter, Wondershare UniConverter, and VLC Media Playercan be used to convert an FLV file into an MP4, MOV, GIF or AVI file.

Because YA was broadcast in English on The WB in 2000 in 480p resolution, the above-linked MPEG4 versions of YA in English and the below-linked Flash Video versions of YA in English, both of which are based on 240p viewer recordings made in 2000, are visually inferior to YA as originally broadcast.    

Furthermore, YA as originally broadcast on The WB in 2000 omitted footage that was included in dubbed or subtitled foreign broadcasts of YA in diverse European countries between late 2000 and 2006. 

The following subsection of this site, "YA in high resolution," gives access to higher-resolution viewer recordings of dubbed but fuller broadcasts of YA in Spain and France in 2005-06, when equipment for making home recordings of TV shows had improved in diverse ways, including higher resolution.  It also gives access to a higher-resolution version of YA mostly in English, made by using a video editor to combine the English audio of YA as broadcast in 2000 with a higher-resolution recording of YA as broadcast in France in 2005-06, using subtitles to translate into English the dialogue of footage omitted from YA as broadcast in the U.S.A. in 2000. 

"Fair use" claim (again):

No authorized recording or streaming of YA has ever been offered for sale.  If any authorized recording or streaming of YA were available for purchase, this site, "Rawley Revisited," would tell readers how to purchase it; this site would neither provide a link to another site where copies of viewer recordings of YA can be viewed or downloaded, nor make copies of viewer recordings of YA available for downloading.   

Moreover, YA seems not to have been broadcast or streamed anywhere in the world since around 2006.  If YA were often broadcast or streamed, this site would urge readers to watch its next broadcast or streaming; this site would neither provide a link to another site where copies of viewer recordings of YA can be viewed or downloaded, nor make copies of viewer recordings of YA available for downloading.

This site, "Rawley Revisited," seeks, without monetary or material compensation, to enhance appreciation of YA as a work of dramatic art, which is possible only if is possible to watch YA.  In the absence of any authorized recording or streaming or recent or expected future broadcast or streaming of YA, this site's posting of viewer recordings of YA and of links to other postings of viewer recordings of YA seems consistent with U.S. Code 17-107, which specifically permits as "fair use" the reproduction of copyrighted material "for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research."   

Ichabod Grubb

Posted March 2024

Last updated March 2024

YA 1-8 in English on The WB in 2000, 240p, FLV files