>>15105132Time to get technical.
Standard Definition TV in the 90s and on VHS was 480i. 480i supports 720x480 (a 16:9 resolution) at either 4:3 or 16:9. In the early 2000s 4:3, 16:9, and 5:4 battled it out in the early LCD PC monitor space before 16:9 caught on as the standard panel. Starting in like 2004, people start buying HD tvs which are usually 16:9 720p screens. Other than extremely expensive cable packages that delivered almost nothing other than sports in 720p, you couldn't get anything to watch on these at full resolution because blu-ray wasn't feasible yet at a consumer level. So the DVD market started distributing true widescreen DVDs at 480p widescreen, 720x480 resolution to market HDtv early adopters whereas widescreen VHS was just black bars in the video feed and a lower resolution than pan & scan 4:3. Since modern video is all shot and broadcast in HD (which started around 2007-2009 depending on the country, WWE was very proud of it and had that WWEHD logo everywhere), whenever the feed/pirated copy is downscaled to SD you are going to get a widescreen video, because they're setting their video encoder to the widescreen DVD setting essentially.
If you want to watch a modern video in 4:3 on a CRT, you either have to zoom it in like your tv did, or manually edit it down to 4:3.
