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Where to keep these mpeg-4 files...

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Last year I bought 15 episodes of season 2 of Lost off of iTunes. Now they're on my macbook, taking up 2.91 GB of space. I don't want to just get rid of them, but they're taking up way too much space for as often as I watch them!

I was thinking I could put the files on a CD, but I don't think I'd be able to fit very many on one disk? Then I thought I could put them on DVD using iDVD, so I could actually watch them on my TV, but I'm not sure if that would work since they're copyright protected or whatever?? And even if they did, I have a feeling it would take FOREVER to burn over 11 hours of DVD.

Another thing I was thinking I could do is put the files on a DVD. The only blank DVDs I have right now are DVD-RW. Can I use DVD-RWs to put files on, though? I've only ever used them in my DVD recorder to record stuff off TV. It says they have 4.7 GB of storage.

What would be my best bet as to how to keep these movie files?!
 
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Yip just burn the files to a blank DVD disk
 

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