Patent ID: 6151440
Filing Date: 2000-11-21
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
An arrangement for recording information signals in recording tracks on a magnetic tape, said arrangement comprising:at least one rotationally drivable magnetic head for scanning inclined recording tracks on the magnetic tape; anda tape drive device for intermittently driving the magnetic tape in a longitudinal direction of the tape, in which, for recording an information signal segment by the magnetic head in an inclined recording track during a recording cycle, the magnetic tape is accelerated from standstill to a given recording tape speed, is subsequently driven at the recording tape speed for at least the duration of the recording of the information signal segment, and is subsequently braked to standstill, and in which, after completion of a recording cycle when the magnetic tape is stopped, the stationary magnetic tape is scanned by the magnetic head along an inclined reproducing track which partly overlaps the inclined recording track last scanned, and the information signal segment recorded in the inclined recording track last scanned is then reproduced, wherein said arrangement further comprises:first means for determining, when said magnetic tape is stopped and during the scanning of said inclined reproduction track, an instantaneous relative position of the inclined reproducing track, in the longitudinal direction of the tape, with respect to the inclined recording track last scanned, which is partly overlapped by the inclined reproducing track, said first means generating position information representative of the determined instantaneous relative position; andsecond means for controlling, in dependence on the position information, the duration of activation of the tape drive device during a subsequent recording cycle for recording an information signal segment in an inclined recording track.