Reproducing apparatus with cross-talk suppression for a color television signal

In an apparatus for reproducing a color television signal, including a chrominance signal containing color synchronizing signals, recorded on a plurality of tracks on a record carrier such that individual line period sectors are aligned in adjacent tracks in a direction perpendicular to the direction of the tracks and wherein the polarity of at least the chrominance signal is recorded with periodically changed polarity in said sectors in at least one of two adjacent tracks, said apparatus having means for periodically switching the polarity of the reproduced signal in predetermined line period sectors, means responsive to a line synchronizing frequency signal and coupled to said switching means for controlling the switching period thereof so as to cancel the polarity switching effected during recording, the improvement comprising means for identifying the phase relationship between color synchronizing signals of predetermined line period sectors and means for applying said reproduced signal with said switched polarity to said identifying means, said identifying means including means for delaying said color synchronizing signals for a predetermined time interval, means coupled to said delay means for comparing the phase of said delayed color synchronizing signals with the phase of undelayed color synchronizing signals and means coupled to said phase comparison means for applying to said control means a control signal in the event the phase between said delayed and undelayed synchronizing signals differ from that prescribed by a predetermined format, said control means in response to said control signal modifying the polarity switching effected by said switching means so that said phase difference conforms to said format.