Patent ID: RE39029

Claim:
A magnetic recording apparatus comprising: a rotary cylinder for winding thereon a video tape over an angle of substantially 180°; first and second recording/reproducing heads mounted on the rotary cylinder at positions apart from each other by 180° in a rotating direction of the rotary cylinder for recording on the video tape first-channel and second channel video signals, respectively, and for reproducing track information from the video tape during an editing mode; and first and second erasing heads mounted on the rotary cylinder at positions apart from each other by 180° in the rotating direction of the rotary cylinder for erasing first-channel and second channel video signals, respectively, recorded on the video tape, wherein the first recording/reproducing head and the first erasing head are disposed adjacent to each other in the rotating direction of the rotary cylinder, and the second recording/reproducing head and the second erasing head are disposed adjacent to each other in the rotating direction of the rotary cylinder, and wherein the first and second recording/reproducing heads are disposed on the rotary cylinder so as to precede the first and second erasing heads, respectively, in the rotating direction of the rotary cylinder, and the first and second erasing heads are disposed to be higher in a head height direction, respectively, than the first and second recording/reproducing heads such that the first and second erasing heads scan tracks which precede in a running direction of the video tape by two tracks from respective tracks recorded by the first and second recording/reproducing heads.