Best way to get LARGE (multi-DVD) project to show on a TV?

My wife has compiled an iMovie '09 project that has about 42 hours worth of dance videos.  The project consists of many clips of all sorts of esoteric dancing, with a brief fade between each one.  It looks fine on her iMac.  She wants to show these videos on a TV at the "Dance Ladies Retreat" that is coming up in a couple months.  Some ideas we've considered are:
Buying her a new MacBook, and moving the iMovie project over via Firewire, Ethernet cable, or similar.  Then taking the MacBook to the event, and hooking it up to the TV via cable.  This method will be very expensive.
Saving the project on a 256 giga-byte USB drive.  First we'd have to get this mondo iMovie project into a format that would work on a PC laptop, which could then be attached to the TV.  Not sure how to get the iMovie project into a PC-readable format.
Break the mondo iMovie project up into DVD-size chunks.  My wife bought Aimersoft DVD Creator, which we may try to use if we decide to split the iMovie project up into a number of DVDs, but I'm not sure if it can merge movie clips.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thank you
ATB

Geoff: Thank you for your reply!  I downloaded VLC Player and was able to read a DVD's worth of my wife's project that she had copied onto Aimersoft's DVD Creator software.  First I saved the Aimersoft DVD Creator file onto my flash drive, and tried to play it on my PC with Media Player.  No joy.  VLC-Player worked like a champ!
OK, now I need to figure out the next piece of the puzzle, which is the best way to get all of her work onto this single, 256 Gb flash drive that we have on order from Amazon.  The ultimate plan is to store the entire iMovie output onto the 256 Gb flash drive, and play it using my ASUS laptop through an HDMI cable.  Looks like we have two main choices for this:
Copy all of her iMovie project onto DVD Creator, and save these onto the big flash drive.  This has the advantage of breaking her project up into manageable chunks, but will VLC Player be able to play those chunks sequentially?
Stay with iMovie, and "share" her project onto the 256 Gb flash drive.  Maybe first we should split the huge project up into several smaller projects, perhaps 4 hours each.  A couple questions here: what do you think would be the nominal size for breaking up the huge project, and what would be the best option for saving the movie using "share."
Thank you very much.  By the way, I found a nice explanation of the features and uses of iMovie 09 (that's the one we have) at this web site: http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/imovie_09_stone.html
Thank you
ATB

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