What happens when Apple TV HDD fills up?

1. Lets say that i start buying movies on Apple TV... and my HDD fills up?
What happens then? Does that mean i cannot buy anymore movies?
Do i have to buy another Apple TV with a bigger HDD? How do my movies get transferred to the bigger Apple TV?
2. What happens if my Apple TV malfunctions and doesn't work anymore?
-- What happens to all the movies that i have purchased?

By preference an tv is ordinarily set up with a primary itunes library and if you have more than one itunes library the remaining libraries will be set up as secondary libraries.
With a primary library in place, content purchased on the tv will get transferred back to the primary itunes library and removed from the tv HDD unless you choose to sync it back. You should of course still keep a back up of all your data on your mac/pc.
In this scenario your tv will never fill up,

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