Apple TV hard drive vs streaming

I have an apple TV, Iphone and Ipod Nano. When converting an video, I am trying to avoid have two or three copies of movies in Itunes. I have a 160 gig ATV, If I sync ATV the movie will be on there but if I delete it from Itunes, will it then disappear from ATV? Is there a way to load movies on to ATV without syncing it with Itunes.

Deltchiro,
Although you don't specifically state it, I'm assuming that you're using something like Handbrake to convert your videos. I suggest that you play around with the conversion settings and find one that will play on all three devices.
I've got an iMac, iPod Touch 2G, iPod Classic, and ATV. Using the Handbrake ATV settings and adding the iPod kernel checkbox with 2500 bitrate, I've gotten a great-looking video conversion that plays on all of my devices. On top of that, the resulting file is quite manageable and it contains both Dolby 5.1 AND 2-channel stereo tracks.
One movie file -- four devices -- can't beat that!

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