Why won't my 3GS sync HD TV shows?

I want to put TV shows on my iPhone 3GS but I only have HD versions.
The notification iTunes gives me is that the TV shows are not supported...

I think, suspect that HD movies, videos? don't work on a 3GS people might need an iphone 4 or later???
but it's stupid because I can download HD movies and can't play them on my 3GS, that shouldn't happen, and I went to geek squad, asked tech support - 2 times and it wasn't till I got here I realized HD movies might not work on 3GS, I think if you download the SD version it might play, when you go to the HD movie version on itunes it's a scroll down away at the bottom it should say SD version, downloading this version should work on my 3GS, going to do this, I tried converting: went to itunes and then at File scrolled down to: create new version for iphone while movie is selected but didn't work because create ipod or iphone version was disabled, if this doesn't work will call tech tom. then if not will tell them I want a refund and download the SD version. hopefully it will work as I have spend 8 hours trying to figure it out, running out of options Mr. Apple, but I think the SD version will work ;D good luck, hope my infor. helps ;DDDD

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