Patent ID: 7298961

Claim:
A portable video recording device comprising a video cassette housing adapted to operatively engage a video cassette recorder, said cassette housing comprising: a set of read-write heads for operatively engaging an opposing set of read-write heads for analog signals in said video cassette recorder; disk-drive storage apparatus operatively connected to said cassette read-write heads; apparatus for controlling said disk-drive storage apparatus to play and record video data through said video cassette recorder; a converter for converting analog video data recorded from said video cassette recorder to digital data wherein said digital data may be stored in said disk drive storage apparatus; a power supply for maintaining said disk drive storage apparatus; an endless non-recordable tape adapted to engage and nest a rotating drum in the video cassette recorder including said set of read-write heads in said video cassette, said tape permitting the engagement of the set of read-write heads in said drum with the set of read-write heads in said cassette housing; apparatus for converting selected digital data stored in said disk drive storage apparatus back to analog data; and apparatus for applying converted analog data to said read-write heads in said recording device whereby such analog data is applied as an output signal playback to said video cassette recorder.