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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 10, 1998
Willibald Friedreich, Vienna, AT;
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A video recorder for playing video recordings recorded on magnetic tapes, these recordings being available with different playback qualities, and including a reproduction apparatus for scanning a magnetic tape and for supplying a playback signal; and a playback-signal processing apparatus for processing the playback signal and including at least one controllable signal-influencing stage for controllably influencing at least one component (luminance signal Y) of the playback signal, and an entry device for cooperating with the video recorder and providing entry of characteristic information which characterizes different playback qualities of video recordings; and a control apparatus for generating control information corresponding to the characteristic information. The at least one controllable signal-influencing stage is controlled depending on the control information.