Videos taking up disk space.

I have some tv shows I've bought and their filling up my hard drive. I want to burn them to a dvd so I can get them off my HD. But I can't figure out how to do this. I have already deleted some tv shows because I needed the space and now I can't redownload them without paying for it again. Which in itself is a rip off. Anyways can someone help me? Doing a backup by the way doesn't work either it still leaves all the files on the disk. I also can't selectively backup files its either all or nothing.

Doing a backup by the way doesn't work either it still leaves all the files on the disk.
That's how a backup works, with just about any software. If you want to remove something from your hard drive after backing it up, you do it yourself. Software that will automatically remove a file after backing it up usually refers to that process as "archiving".
I want to burn them to a dvd so I can get them off my HD.
In iTunes, you can use the "Back up to disk" command under the File menu. Then once the backup is completed, you can remove the videos from your drive. Or probably better, do as rcmadiax suggested and back up (or move) your entire iTunes collection to an external drive.

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