film is film and so as long as the film is available it can be transcoded in HD (or even more then 1080p) when digitized. So for movies most are not an issue. For TV shows it is more convoluted, the older series were filmed the same way as movies, but cheaper camcorders and digital cameras started being used more and so they will have little benefit. So for Dr.Who the older series, if the films still exist, can be HD, but I heard that the newer ones are on digital cameras, so the only benefit will be better compression and less disks.
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