Video signal recording/reproducing apparatus

A video signal recording/reproducing apparatus of helical-scan type, in which a video signal is recorded on a magnetic tape in successive tracks which are inclined to the longitudinal direction of the tape, comprising:

• a rotary cylinder around which said magnetic tape travels by more than 180 degrees of rotation angle of the cylinder along a helical path and means for rotating said cylinder in synchronism with the field period of said video signal;
• a pair of magnetic heads disposed on said rotary cylinder so as to trace said recording tracks on said magnetic tape as said cylinder rotates, said heads having gaps whose azimuth angles which are different from each other, said magnetic heads being disposed at an interval of other than 180 degrees of the rotation angle of the rotary cylinder;
• first means for converting the video signal during a head rotation period into a video signal having a time period corresponding to the period during which said magnetic tape is scanned by said magnetic heads for each rotation of said rotary cylinder;
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• second means for applying the converted video signal to said magnetic heads for recording on said magnetic tape.