I want to keep the Apple TV and my computer separate

I have movies I just want to dump onto the APPLE TV drive and delete from my computer to save hard disk space. I was told I could just drag content to the apple tv... I don't really care about synching - though I would like to share the library on the computer. How can I do this - that is - have an Apple TV library, and only share the iTunes library on my computer?
Thanks
G

You have been incorrectly advised.
AppleTV can only mirror items that iTunes has in it's library or are stored elsewhere but referenced by the library.
The biggest issue is that items cannot be retrieved from AppleTV once transferred to it, and if you deleted things from iTunes they then get deleted from AppleTv the next time you or iTunes sync.
Probably your best option would be to buy a cheap USB hard drive big enough for storing things you want on AppleTV but not actually copied in iTunes on the main computer. Put all the stuff you only want on AppleTV on that drive, then change iTunes Preferences so that files are not copied to the library but only references to their location are stored, then import the files to iTunes so they appear in the library listings and sync with AppleTV. You can then disconnect the drive until you want to add new things to AppleTv and iTunes shouldn't delete the AppleTV content as it thinks you want to sync it but just can't find it.
If you want stuff in iTunes not AppleTV change the Preference back - you can mix and match things stored in teh iTunes library folder or just stored as links/references.
This is a complete fudge, and you could achieve the same by right clicking on an entry in iTunes and selecting show in Finder or the Windows equivalent to display the actual file in a file system window. If you then physically delete that file it has freed up space from the iTunes library but stays on AppleTv as there's still an entry for it in iTunes itself, just that the actual file no longer exists.
Sorry if that's confusing.
Drag and drop to AppleTV with an option to stream other stuff would be the ideal, I've no idea why they haven't implememnted it.
AC
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