Apple TV as storage

I bought an apple TV in the hope that I could use it to store all of my music and movies and free up my Mac's HD - but I can only sync... is there no way of dropping all my music and movie content on to the apple TV and leaving my mac free for my work files!? Do I now have to shell out for an external HD? If I buy a time capsule, will I be able to use that as storage, or is that another mirroring system???

You could store your sync files to ATV on not your main Mac. Just make sure you never sync it with any of those file removed from the itunes library. This would be very risky especially if main storage. ATV was not designed for that function.
TC can do it but I would never store as main storage.
Heed Winston about external storage such as firewire or usb.

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