Apple TV remote storage

I'm considering an apple tv.. If I have an appletv i'd buy a ton of videos and stuff and put it there to watch later.. but i don't want those videos to stay locally in my computer because I don't have much room left in my macbook pro.
Can you choose to store files remotely only? like I add a video from the itunes store for example, it gets transferred to the apple tv and deleted from my itunes folder.
is this possible at all?
thanks!!

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