Pardon if this is silly, iMovie to regular DVD player

This may seem silly but I just went to burn a DVD from iMovie (iLife 2005) and it says the recoreded DVD will not be able to be played in a regular DVD Player.
Is it not possible to record movies I've created in iMovies so that friends and family can watch them on their TV?
I'm sorry if this is a stupid question but I can't find anything that tells me for sure.

File>Burn Project to Disc...
That's just the useless command that is supposed to archive the iMovie project to a dataDVD. It is useless because it can't span >4 GB projects to multiple disks.
You can burn videoDVD via iMovie's iDVD tab which sends the project to iDVD. That should play on a standalone DVD player.

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Just my thoughts to add to the excellent answers above.
• BRAND of DVD used - Matters when doing Video-DVDs
Memorex, NoName etc cheap brands usually do NOT work
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I would take a look at the following:
1. Try a different brand blank DVD medium when you burn the disc. Set top players seem to be a lot more sensitive to the brand of disc than computers.
2. Burn the iDVD project to an image file. Share the image file over to another Mac and burn it there. See if you still have problems with playback.
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408-996-1010
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