Some Movies Not Synching

I am not sure why, but some .mp4 files that I add to iTunes do not appear on my AppleTV (I stream from my iMac). They appear grey on the synch list - so there's a reason, but I don't know why.
An example file's specs in the QT inspector --
Format
H.264, 720 x 400, Millions
AAC, Stereo (L R), 48.000 kHz
FPS
23.98
Looking for some advice -- thanks.

I have the same problem with some of my DVD rips which were done before I chose the Apple TV format in Handbrake. You can right click the title in iTunes and choose convert to Apple TV but when I tried this the quality degraded substantially and it flagged it as HD so when it's in the list of films on the Apple TV it's got HD next to it, even know it's worse than VCD quality. No idea how you remove that HD flag.

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