How to watch iTunes Store brought Movies and TV-Shows?

Hi,
I brought a lot TV-Shows and Movies from iTunes. They do all reside on the hard disk of one of my Macs. Each time I want to watch a movie or a TV Show, I need to start iTunes on this machine. I am considering giving up my DVD colection, but I have no plans to switch to BlueRay ever. BlueRay is dead, or at least for me no option, and I rather give up my brought DVD instead of increase the amount of shelfes for DVDs.
So I intent to import the DVDs myself or rebuying part of them on iTunes. Usualy the quality on iTunes is better than selfimported and the time investment for selfimport wont pay off, so it will be probably rebuying. But I dont want to waste several TB hard disk capacity for local copies.
Thought iCloud would take care of this. My music is available over music match and I can redownload any music video, audiobook or music from iTunes if I want. But I am not able to redownload any brought movie or TV-Show, nor can I stream brought movies from iTunes store on my Apple TV.
Why do I need to provide lots of Terrabyte of hard disk capacity for this? Thought with iCloud this would be over, but its not.
Edit:
According to Apple it should work this way:
http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/
But it is not. Any idea what I am missing?

My desktop was stolen a few weeks ago and I am left with this brand new hp thing.When I put itunes on and try to watch a movie or tv show I get a loud humming and after a while I can't take it anymore I turn it all off.I had actually given up and was ready to trade my ipad,ipods,and,itunes to anyone who can give me my movies and shows so I can actually watch them.Nero will stream my songs but not video and my ps3 will not see my istuff when I plug it in. Sony has gotten to be the same thing if I go anywhere on a trip I need to take a sony phone to play playstation store movies and an ipod or ipad to watch itunes stuff.
Is there any other way to see stuff I own? If so please tell me because it seems that I have more trouble watching stuff I own than the pirates on the internet and I would think that google is where I should be going because it will play anywhere on about anything.I hope I am just a dumb old man who doesn't know how to work this stuff and someone can tell me what I can do so I can watch my movies I paid for. any help would be great.
Thanks,
Chris

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