Transferring a movie from my Laptop to Apple TV

I have some .mp4 movies I want to tranfer from my PC to Apple TV. Whats the best way to do this? Could i use a memory stick? Thanks for any advice.

I am thinking of buying an Apple TV but not sure if it is worth it as I am between 2 homes at the moment with my MAC in one house and a Windows laptop in the other.
This may be a stupid question but if I sync all my movies and music etc etc to my Apple TV would I then be ablt to take it with me and have all my content available to play in my other house on my HD TV ?
So really I am not using it for streaming as such but using it as a media player with all my stuff on it?

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