Itunes HD purchased movies

Not having considered things, and getting carried away in the moment, i purchased 5 series of a popular tv show on the Apple Store in HD format.
I have an Apple TV, and a 500GB iMac.
So the Apple TV sync'd with the iMac, and now i have 160GB (100 odd episodes) eating up space on my iMac disk (which is running low on disk space as it is). I have several terabytes of external storage, but this is not always plugged into the iMac, so it kinds of defeats the whole media online thing.
Ideally id like to be able to burn the tv shows to blu-ray (i have a burner). I know i could burn them to dvd, but i'd only get 2 or 3 episodes per dvd, so it will take an age (should be obvious from opening sentence that patience is not one of my stronger points .
What is the recommended Apple solution to this problem (or maybe a non-Apple recommendation). I'm sure guys with the smaller (40GB) Apple TV must hit this problem all the time.
Thanks in advance.

You cannot burn itunes video purchases.
From the itunes store terms of service:
"You shall not be entitled to burn video Products "
http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/us/terms.html
Only put the episodes that you plan to watch very soon on your Apple TV/Imac. Keep the rest stored on back up until you need them.

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