Stream itunes purchased movies to ipad

I want to stream movies purchased in itunes to my ipad rather than download them.  I don't have enough memory to store all these movies and shows.  Apple tv can do it why can't my ipad?  I hope there is a setting I am overlooking to turn of movie and tv show storage and if there is not then there should be.
Anyone?

I belive the Apple TV (both current version and previous version) only have 8GB of cache, so this is less than what most people would have in even the basic iPad model (16GB).  But the Apple TV is designed for streaming from another source (iTunes server for rented movies, your Mac over iTunes sharing, Netflix server, etc.)  The iPad is designed for WiFi streaming but due to agreements with the cellular carriers, they don't want to host all of that bandwith for streaming movies over their data networks.  At least, not at this time.  Perhaps that will change with 4G?  Even so, that level of data use will probably be expensive.  It would be more economical to buy an iPad with more RAM next time (or trade up -- I sold my old iPad on Amazon for almost what I paid for it and got the model with more RAM). 

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