Patent ID: 8027115

Claim:
A data recording apparatus, comprising: an accumulating portion that accumulates moving image data, in which address data is added to main data in a plurality of channels, transferred from 17 or more external appliances on a channel basis; a selecting portion that reads the moving image data accumulated in the accumulating portion; and a recording portion that records the moving image data read by the selecting portion onto a magnetic tape, wherein a plurality of the accumulating portions are provided independently for each of the external appliances, the selecting portion selectively reads the moving image data accumulated in the plurality of the accumulating portions, and outputs the moving image data in order of recording onto the magnetic tape in the recording portion, and the recording portion records the moving image data onto the magnetic tape at a data transfer speed of 20 mega bits per second or more using a head with 8 channels or more so that a plurality of data tracks are formed simultaneously.