Multiple copies of same movie to sync to iPhone and AppleTV

As a loyal collector of Apple "stuff", I have movies on my primary computer (PowerMac G5 w/ additional 250GB HS just for iTune media). Some of these movie files wouldn't sync to the AppleTV, so I converted the to a format/form which would sync. Some of them won't sync to the iPhone, so I've started to convert them to a format/form which will sync to the iPhone. So now in some situations I have 3 copies of the same movie file. Seems like a huge waste of disk space. It's also hard to tell which one is compatible with which device.
Any advice, idea, best-practices?
Thanks.
Adam

Here's what I do in the same situation.
I convert using iPhone base formats but bump up the resolution to 640 (and autocrop). In general this results in a superb image even on a large (38") TV and one that plays well on the iPhone (bit rate no more than 1000K).
This has become my standardized conversion now -- you can get a slightly better image by bumping up the max bit rate but oddly enough the only real improvement is in very very fast action (much of what I'm watching nowadays is action movies and I've notice only one or two times in the many dozens where the image has "jumped" just a tiny bit). It's very economical -- about 1gb per 2 hours -- which is a consideration even on Apple TV (I now have about 200 movies there).
Handbrake's presets are superb in this regard (get the latest version and use the iPhone/iTouch but change the res).

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