Is the 40gb Hard Drive a real limitation?

Is this a real limit in the design of the current product? Unless you select sync ALL for both Movies and TV Shows (I guessing this would be true for Audio) your not given the option to stream the remainder of your content. In fact it is not even listed! I would have thought that for the computer that I am synced too that I would see all of my content not just what was copied to the 40GB drive. So what happens when you have more content that what will fit on the drive? Does it force you to pick and choose like an ipod? My guess is probably yes but at the same time I then have a media center solution that is not complete at best. I am then forced to "stream" all of my content, or worse yet have to go in and change the "source" to find missing content or I could void the warranty up upgrade the drive like other sites have already noted.
Am I right or missing something here?
MacPro 3ghz - 4GB, ATI 1900 & MacBook Pro 15" 2.33 Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.9)

I have certain items synced from my primary computer
(photos, a couple of iMovies, etc.) On AppleTV I see
everything in the Library, synced or not. So I'm
streaming the non-synced media. I don't think there
is anything to necessarily do to allow for both
syncing and streaming.
Let me clarify... After looking at my AppleTV again, it finally hit me. In the Sources menu, there is a Source named "TV" which contains the Synced content. Other sources are the iTunes Libraries on each Mac, including the one from which the synced content originated. I've been simply streaming my content from iTunes without ever going back to the TV for synced content.
I guess this was probably obvious to most people, but it just hit me after my last post.
Erik

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