Movie was not copied because it cannot be played on this ipod

I have seen this posted a couple times but no one ever seems to post a solution.
I bought a couple tv shows from itunes. I try and sync my iPhone4 running ios5, and I get an error that says "**** was not copied to the ipod ** because it cannot be played on this device".
A couple posts mentions to go to Advanced and "Convert to iphone/ipod" but this option is grayed out and not available?
Is there anything I can do? Is there a way to find out this is going to happen before buying these?
Help Please!!

Or you talking about making sure the movie is SD version?
Yes.
Make sure you are trying to load an SD (standard definition) version, not an HD version.

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