Sony Corporation

Mayumi Abe

Kenichi Sato

Kazunobu Chiba

Yuichi Arisaka

Yukari Yamada

Yasuo Tateno

Hiroji Naruse

A method for magnetically recording digital video signals includes the steps of: converting input digital video signals into data segmented into blocks each composed of a plurality of pixel data; compression-coding the blocks of pixel data block-by-block; converting the compression-coded data into channel-encoded data; and supplying the channel-encoded data to magnetic heads on a rotary drum for recording by such heads on a magnetic recording medium constituted by a nonmagnetic base having thereon a magnetic layer of at least one thin magnetic metal film which has an energy product of at least 75 G.cm.Oe, with the surface roughness of said magnetic recording medium being at most 0.003 .mu.m in center line average height Ra, and with the surface roughness of said magnetic recording medium being at most 0.04 .mu.m in ten point average height Rz.

Digital signal recording on a magnetic recording medium having a

A perpendicular magnetic recording medium having a magnetic layer comprised of a metal magnetic thin film on a nonmagnetic support. The half-value width of the switching field distribution obtained from a remanent magnetization curve in the intrinsic easy direction of magnetization (axis of easy magnetization from which shape magnetic anistrophy is removed) of the magnetic layer is no more than 40 kA/m. Rectangular wave signals are recorded or reproduced on or from a Co--O type perpendicular magnetic recording medium with a direction .theta..sub.E of the axis of easy magnetization tilted in a range of 10.degree. to 45.degree. from the direction perpendicular to the plane of the film of the magnetic layer using a ring type magnetic head with a gap length Lg of not more than 0.18 .mu.m.

Perpendicular magnetic recording medium and process for production of

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Miyagi, Japan

Mayumi Abe