Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Nippon Hoso' Kyokai

Tadashi Nakayama

Kunio Sekimoto

Kunio Suesada

Yoshinobu Oba

Sigekazu Togashi

Toshihiro Uehara

Shiro Tsuji

Kunjo Suesada

Method and apparatus for recording a plurality of audio channels on segmented tracks of a tape by rotary heads. The audio channels to be recorded are allocated to recording sectors provided for the individual audio channels on the basis of the relation between the number of the audio channels and the number of the segmented tracks, so that each recording track necessarily includes the individual audio channel recording sectors uniformly distributed in the longitudinal direction of the tape, and the two-dimensional distance between the sectors on which the same audio channel is recorded can be maximized on the tape. Thus, an adverse effect of an error attributable to a dropout and/or a scar formed on the tape can be dispersed, thereby achieving high capability for error correction.

Method and apparatus for rotary-head type signal recording and

A recording apparatus of the present invention includes selective guard adding means for predicting, at the time of editing, positions of adjacency of new tracks to previously recorded tracks obtained at the time of completion of new track recording, and adds, at the time of editing, guards to locations where disturbance due to residue of erasing of the same azimuth might occur in order to remove or reduce the disturbance due to residue of erasing of the same azimuth caused at the editing point. When performing reproduction from a recording medium whereon tracks recorded by heads of at least two kinds of azimuth angles are disposed alternately and a plurality of tracks are handled as one recording unit and recorded, a reproducing apparatus of the present invention is so configured that the center of each of heads located at both ends of reproducing heads may be shifted to the inside as compared with each corresponding recording track. When disturbance due to the residue of erasing of the same azimuth occurs at the editing point, therefore, more signals of tracks to be originally reproduced can be reproduced, resulting in a greater resistance to disturbance of the same azimuth.

Magnetic reproducing apparatus and magnetic recording and reproducing

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Tadashi Nakayama