How to burn purchased TV Shows to DVD

Hello, I recently purhcased "Downton Abbey: Season 2" for my mother. She want's to view it on our HDTV in the living room, but my computer is a desktop so it will be inconveneint to move it all the way to the living room just for that purpose. Since the DRM won't let me put the files on a USB drive for playback on the HDTV or our Blu-Ray player, I was thinking on burning the video files onto DVD's so that it'll be simple to understand for my tech-illeterate mother.
I am not planning on selling or giving out these DVD's, they are for my use in my home only. I have the right to do with them as I please as I purchased it legally, and won't be violating any copyright infringements for playing back the files for personal use.
Is there a way I can do this? I currently have iTunes 11.01.12 installed on my Windows 7 PC.
Thank You

@babs1003
I do have wireless internet, but it's pretty bad for streaming (I live in a rural area). That is why I opted to download the videos on iTunes, as they are DOWNLOADED there is no need for them to be streamed.
My question for the Apple TV is that can it directly stream video from my computer & not from the cloud (like Netflix)? If this is the case, this might be a good idea.

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