Home set-up for MBA and Apple TV - advice please

Hi,
I have a Macbook Air, Apple TV and an iPhone 4S. However, most of my media (music and films) is still stored on my old windows laptop, due mainly to lack of storage space on my MBA.
I would quite like to have persistent storage hooked up to my Apple TV, from which I could watch films or transfer them onto my mobile devices as and when necessary.
My question is, what is the best way to achieve this, some people have suggested using a time capsule as a kind of external hard drive, or alternatively getting a Mac mini and have it permanently turned on and connected to the Apple TV.
What is the general consensus as to which approach would be best (and most value for money, and easiest for an apple novice to set-up)?
Many thanks in advance
Scott

I have an AppleTV connected to my home theatre. The hardest part of setting it up and configuring it was unplugging all the compenents from the surge protector to replace it with one that had more outlets! With taken care of, I turned on the TV, saw the AppleTV screen, tried out the remote, and went downstairs to my computer that has my music and movie collection.
I set iTunes to launch automatically when my computer starts up and set the energy saver control panel to start my iMac and shut it down automatically at specific times. To stream music to the TV the computer has to be running. Finally, in iTunes I turned on iTunes sharing.  Back upstairs I checked out the AppleTV and it already had found my computer and my music was there. That simple.
Since I originally set it up, Apple has introduced iTunes Matching, a service that puts your music collection (or at least 25,000 songs of it) in the cloud. My wife and I had good reason to be interested int that service and for the AppleTV it has an added benefit. The ATV can stream music from the iTunes cloud - that means my computer doesn't need to be running during the day for me to share music.

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