How can movies from 70s be remastered in 4K, but not sports games?

Question

For example, they remastered Taxi Driver from 1976 to 4K Quality, but they can’t remaster Lakers vs Celtics from the 80s?

In: Technology

Answer 1

Sports can be remastered but there’s not a market for watching reruns of old sporting events. Classic movies will get replayed on TV repeatedly and even rereleased in limited theaters. But people generally don’t rewatch sporting events. ESPN had a channel dedicated to replays of older games. It was ESPN Classic. Obviously, ratings didn’t justify it’s continued existence.

I’d love to see see a remastered Mike Tyson v Buster Douglas fight.