Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Toshinori Morikawa

Satoshi Kikuya

Hiroshi Terada

Narito Shibaike

Seiko Minamide

Osamu Zaitsu

Shinichi Harazono

A magnetic recording/playback device in which a tape mounting device for mounting a magnetic tape in a cassette on a magnetic head drum or demounting the tape from the magnetic head drum into the cassette and a mode switching driving device adapted for effecting a switching of operation mode such as recording, playback, rewinding and forwarding are driven by a single driving power source, in good sequence through a change of the load imposed by the tape mounting device and the mode switching driving device, to permit a reduction in size and weight of the recording/playback device.

Magnetic recording/playback device

Two auxiliary heads are provided in addition to the two main heads for a helical scan video signal tape recorder. The vertical and horizontal positions of the auxiliary heads are determined so as to effectively reproduce a slow-motion picture from a magnetic tape on which the signals are recorded using the so called 'azimuth' recording method. The output of each head is selectively supplied to a video signal demodulating circuit via a switching circuit.

Method of slow-motion play back of video signals and video tape recorder

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Kadoma, Japan

Toshinori Morikawa