EyeTV Hybrid - burning recorded TV to DVD

Hello, I was going to post this in the User Tips section but that section has had a bug all day and has not let me post. Anyway, does anybody know if you can burn recorded content from EyeTV Hybrid with iDVD already installed with OSX, or do you HAVE to purchase Toast? Toast is an awesome tool, but this is for my mother computer and she does not need/would not use any of its features.
On the website (http://www.elgato.com/index.php?file=products_eyetvhybridna) it does say you need Toast to burn shows to DVD to watch on your TV, I'm just wondering if that really is the only way. It seems like the iLife apps could handle this task.
Thanks

I don't know just how to explain a disk image, except when you open one, it become like a separate hard drive. If you are in iDVD, go to the File Menu, and down to Save as Disk Image. Save this on your desktop. Then, from the finder window, go to the Go Menu, down to Utilities, and open Disk Utility. You will want to open the disk image by double clicking it. Then, burn it from Disk Utility. If you search the Knowledge Base, or the iDVD discussions section, I'm sure there is a better explanation.
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