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AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsYuji Ito, Hiroshi Okada
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An apparatus for recording video and digital audio signals in separate sections of slant tracks on a magnetic tape in the 8 mm format includes two main rotary magnetic heads for recording and reproducing both the video and digital audio signals during normal recording and reproduction modes and two auxiliary rotary magnetic heads for reproducing the digital audio signals during an audio edit mode. The auxiliary rotary heads are disposed for reproducing the digital audio signal recorded in respective tracks which are positioned upstream, considered in respect to the transporting direction of the tape, relative to the tracks to be next scanned by the main rotary heads so that the digital audio signals reproduced by the auxiliary rotary heads may be mixed with new audio signals and rerecorded by the main rotary heads in the same tracks from which they were produced. Consequently, the editing operation may replace all or only a small portion of the digital audio data in each track without disturbing the correspondence between the audio data and corresponding fields of video data.
Apparatus for recording video and audio signals in a plurality of successive tracks on a recording medium, comprising:
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