Storing and streaming movie content from desktop to ATV

Newb questions: 1) If I purchase and store a bunch of movies in iTunes on my desktop computer, I can set these movies not to sync to my ATV or my iPod, right? [I don't particularly want to fill up the hard drive on my 40GB ATV with movies, but I really do not want to fill my 16GB Touch so full of movies that I have no room for adding songs.] 2) What if I run out of hard drive space on the desktop system? Can I add an external USB hard drive to the desktop system just for storage of movies and still stream movies from iTunes to my ATV? [And if so, how?]
Thanks. -- JC

You don't have to sync anything to the ATV if you don't want to. However, you must leave iTunes open on that machine if you want the ATV to see it to be able to stream.
You may find that setting it to sync only like 5 most recent unwatched movies, etc. The Unwatched option is nice as it limits what gets put on the ATV and once you watch it, it gets removed (though you can still play via streaming).
Thus if the computer is off or iTunes closed, your ATV will have the most recent stuff on it (which most likely is what you want to watch).
As for external drive, easy to do. I have a 1TB external USB drive on my computer. I have iTunes pointing to it as to where the library is stored (you can set that in iTunes preferences). Thus all my media is on my external drive.
Don't think of the ATV seeing your hard drives. The ATV ONLY sees your iTunes app. What your iTunes can see on your computer is what the ATV can see. So where ever you put the files, as long as iTunes can see it and play it, then the ATV can.

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