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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 16, 1998
Ryou Nishima, Yokohama, JP;
Naoto Hirohata, Yokohama, JP;
Victor Company of Japan, Ltd., Yokohama, JP;
Abstract
A recording and reproducing apparatus has a rotary drum on which at least two rotary magnetic heads are mounted with 180 degree-symmetry to a center shaft of the drum. One of the magnetic heads has a magnetic gap set with an azimuth angle of 90 degrees or less in a clockwise direction to a track width direction on a magnetic tape. The other magnetic head has a magnetic gap set with an azimuth angle of 90 degrees or less in a clockwise direction to the track width direction. A video signal is sequentially and selectively recorded on the magnetic tape so that first tracks each corresponding to one picture video signal are repeatedly recorded on the magnetic tape while continuously travelling at a speed V/n in a first direction, and second tracks each corresponding to the one picture video signal are repeatedly recorded so that one of the second tracks is sandwiched between the two of the first tracks while the magnetic tape is continuously travelling at the speed V/n in a second direction opposite to the first direction, where V is a predetermined speed and n is a natural number. The video signal may be recorded while the magnetic tape is stopped after intermittent transfer by a distance corresponding to a two track-width in the first or the second direction.