Apple TV, iTunes and my hard drive free space

Hello,
Not sure if anybody has posted this question already. Here it goes.
¿Is it possible to leave some content just in the AppleTV without syncing it to the iTunes? I have a MacBookPro with 100 Gb hard drive; my Apple TV is 160 GB and my content is around 25 GBytes of Movies and 35 Gbytes of TV Shows plus some 2 Gigs of music. Now the issue is that, everytime i bought some movies/songs in the AppleTV it's being transfered to my iTunes in my MacBook and im running out of space like crazy!
So, is it possible to leave in the AppleTV just the content i bought from the iTunes store without syncing it with my iTunes and my Mac hard drive?
And, is it possible to transfer the (movies/tv shows) purchases i've made in my iTunes to my AppleTV so i can free space?
Regards.

So in essence, if you buy a 160 GB ATV and only have a MACBOOK w/ 80 GB, you can only use less than half the space available on your ATV...that *****! I wonder what the best external storage device is for ease of play of content? I hate adding extra equipment....

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