Syncing AND streaming from one computer

I admit, I'm an Apple novice; however, I'm doing my best to catch up! Just got a 40GB ATV for xmas and have synced up all my music but thinking about just streaming my video content. Is there a way to keep all my music synced but stream the video or is it an "all or non" type situation?

Hi There,
I have the same setup (40gb ATV) and have all of my music sync'd and stream all of my video.
You need to select the ATV in your iTunes devices list (on the left hand side). On the "Summary" tab, click the "custom sync" button, and make sure the "show only the sync'd items.." checkbox is empty. On the "Movies" tab, everything should be blank, on the "Music" tab you can choose what you want to sync. Once your ATV has sync'd again, all should be fine.
If you want to avoid a long list of video files, you can create video playlists in iTunes, and then turn on "all" playlists under audio/video settings on the ATV.
Don't forget that to stream, you need your iTunes library open at all times.

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