How to manage a huge movies library to limited 160GB AppleTV hard disk ?

Hi, I own a huge movies library (1TB) into iTunes ("by reference" on externl hard disk connected to my iMac) and looking forward to manage it from my ATV without having iTunes opened on my iMac, I already know to achieve this is to sync the contents to ATV but doing they will be copied to internal ATV hard disk which in turn is very limited (160GB).
Hence I'm asking you which could be the best settings on iTunes to let me:
1) having the entire library on ATV (I mean titles)
2) watching the movie I choose (not yet seen) on ATV
Furthermore I know that it's possible to setup iTunes in order to have on ATV only content not already seen but, I guess, this could point not having the entire "list" of movies on ATV, am I right ?
Hoping to being clear.
dalrmi.

this would be a great feature to have in Airport Extreme or Time Capsule. (if anybody reads these) I never understood why Apple didn't make Time Capsule do exactly what you ask for.
Like other people said, the best ways are to leave your machine on for streaming which isn't that bad over wireless, or to build a 160GB playlist of videos and movies and sync just that list over. Every few days you can swap a few out and they'll stay on the Apple TV... great for kids shows they'll watch 15 times in a row anyway. I believe there is also some settings for "newest added" and the Apple TV will "remember" what you watched last in some cases as it caches the stream from iTunes until the device is full.

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