Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Hidehito Uemura

Masashi Omura

Junichi Sakamoto

Tatsuya Kanatani

Hiroshi Moriyama

Keisuke Tomoishi

There is provided a video cassette recorder comprising a delay element (), a switching unit () for switching an output of the delay element (), a logic unit () for controlling the switching unit (), and a skew detection unit () for detecting a skew, wherein the delay element () shares a delay element used for vertical emphasis/vertical de-emphasis and for a comb line filter during a special replay. The video cassette recorder thus provides a fast-forwarding replay image, a rewinding replay image and a still image with improved skew distortion from a tape recorded in a long recording mode providing quintuple the recording time of a standard mode. This realizes an excellent special replay image at low cost without requiring an expensive circuit such as a TBC and the like.

Video cassette recorder

In order to not only obtain excellent sound quality in a long-time recording mode not less than five times a standard recording mode by preventing, without narrowing a track pitch of a high-fidelity head, the high-fidelity head from tracing the third sound track from a target sound track as well as excellent picture quality free from crosstalk from an adjoining video track of a target video track but enable special playback without using a field memory in a video tape recorder, one head pair in conventional double azimuth type four heads for the standard recording mode and a threefold recording mode is used for video recording in the long-time recording mode and a head pair having a head width smaller than a width of a recording track is used exclusively for video playback in the long-time recording mode.

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Osaka, Japan

Hidehito Uemura