Sync movies to iPhone & Apple TV

If I want to sync a movie to both an iPhone & an Apple TV, it seems that I need to load the video into iTunes twice. If I load up a copy set to the appropriate resolution for the iPhone, it doesn't look as good as it should on the Apple TV. If I load up a copy set to the appropriate resolution for the Apple TV, it won't sync to the iPhone at all. The only viable solution seems to be loading two copies of the same movie into iTunes and wasting disk space on my computer. Someone please tell me that I'm missing something.

Someone please tell me that I'm missing something.
You're not. The Apple TV and iPhone are optimized for different resolutions on video content, and the Apple TV's specification is too large for the iPhone's display to handle.
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