Pioneer Electronic Corporation

Fumihiko Miyamoto

Masami Tsuchida

Kiichiro Koguchi

Kiyoshi Iwai

Hisashi Yagi

Toshio Ohtani

Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Ichiro Miyake

Tsuano Hasegawa

A digital audio tape recorder and a method for operating the same, especially in a music program jump selecting mode. In one embodiment, the state of an erasure-preventing tab is detected, and TOC (Table-Of-Contents) information is transferred from the tape to a TOC information memory only when the erasure-preventing tab is set to an indicate an unrecordable state. In accordance with another embodiment, when the music program number of the music selection presently being reproduced is known and the program number is aligned, a target music program number is calculated and displayed.

Digital audio tape recorder and music program jump selecting method

A magnetic recording a playback device which records or reproduces slant-oriented areas on adjacent tracks by reversing the tape. One of the heads, for instance, the recording/reproducing head on a rotary drum is adjustable in the axial direction of the drum so that only one erase head is required.

Bidirectional magnetic recording and reproducing device with an axially

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Saitama, Japan

Fumihiko Miyamoto