Eastender fans: How did Ian play a time lapse video on a domestic player?

I saw the ending of Eastenders today when Ian put a time lapse video in a domestic video player, and it played in real time.
How was this possible?
Did something happen earlier which enabled it to work, I heard him say it was 8 hours long.

Time lapse video recorders record on normal (high quality) video tape, I am not aware of normal 8 hour video cassettes, and if they existed they could not be the high quality likely to be used in security recorders.

I dont recall anyone mentioning that it was a time lapse video, it must have been a 4hour tape recorded at x2 speed as most videos do this nowadays! jeez its only a tv program you know...why do people take soaps so seriously! tut lol!

cos in magical EEland anythings possable lol!

LOL, how sad are you?! Really, who cares? It's only make believe so there's bound to be some glaring mistakes every now and then.

It was a VHS tape so why wouldn't he be able to play it? It would have been recorded in real time so I really don't get your query

its a cctv video which works off time and date. he put it in. said its 8 hours long. faster forwarded it and poof. who was it though? i didnt recognise the face

it was steven lolz wot a sado e is!!!

because Ian had the whole of the BBC studio and there equipment at his disposal.

because he is time lapse its still 2005 in his brain.