Have movies show up in iTunes that I store elsewhere

I have a buttload of movies and videos that I have converted to the iTunes/Ipod format. I am very quickly running out of hard drive space (1 TB hard drive)
Is there anyway I can burn these movies to a DVD and still have them show up in iTunes so I can keep track of what movies I have.
Additional Info.
The movies are not bought from the itunes store, they are my own that I converted.
I want to take Movies 1,2,3,4 and 5. Burn them to a DVD. Delete them from the computers hard drive. While still having them show up in iTunes. (i know i wont be able to play them unless I add them back to the HD)
Basically im looking for a way to use iTunes as a movie cataloger.
OR
Do you know of any good software to catalog movies that links to or integrates into iTunes, so I can use Remote on my iPod touch as a remote control to watch movies. (PS im on a windows Vista home basic PC so I don't get to use Media Center...Im starting to dislike Microsoft. The Apple minis lookin awful cute in them white shorts)
Thanks in advance

Yes, you can burn them to DVD and remove them from your PC's hard drive, but not from the Movie list in the iTunes window.
If you try to play them in itunes, you'll get a ! +file not found, would you like to locate it+ ? message.
Then pop your DVD in and browse to the file on the DVD, and it should play, as long as the DVD is there.
You could also store the movies on an external hard drive and do the same thing.

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