Copying my movies to DVD

I bought a movie, and am trying to copy the movie to a DVD. I select "backup to disc", I then get a message that I have select a CD backup but have inserted a DVD and am asked if I meant to backup to a DVD. I answer yes and Itunes writes to the DVD. I am not able to play this DVD on my DVD player, anybody have any idea what I'm doing wrong?

This does not seem fair to me. I bought the movie,
Actually, you purchased a license to view the movie, which explains what you are/not allowed to do with the movie.
doesn't that give me the right to view the movie on my media of my choice?
No, it does not. The license spells it out.
To back up to an external hard drive, you simply drag the source movie files to the hard drive icon on your desktop or in My Computer." Forgive me if I sound like a techno idiot, but I can't find my source movie file,
It's in My Documents-> My Music -> iTunes -> iTunes music.
Or you can just drag from iTunes to your desktop, just like music.
if I could then would I not be able to copy the file onto a DVD from my hard drive?
Yes, you can copy the file to a DVD but you cannot format/encode the file onto a DVD which plays in a standard DVD player. It will simply be a backup file.

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