Patent ID: 8606072

Claim:
A recording playback apparatus comprising: a video-signal processor that receives and processes an externally supplied video signal and outputs a processed video signal, the video-signal processor performing conversion processing on said supplied video signal, including at least one of analog-to-digital conversion, digital-to analog conversion, transmission mode conversion, interlace-progressive conversion or up-down conversion, said video signal processor exhibiting an inherent processing time delay determined by the conversion processing of said supplied video signal; a recorder player that stores and plays back the processed video signal; a delayer that receives and delays, by a time delay substantially equal to said inherent processing time delay of said video-signal processor, the video signal played bark by the recorder player, and a controller that switches between (i) a normal mode in which the video signal played back by the recorder player is supplied to a display where the video signal is displayed and (ii) an edit mode in which an edited video signal is supplied to the display, said edited video signal being produced by edit switching means supplied with the delayed video signal played back by the recorder player and the processed video signal, such that in said edit mode, the edit switching means switches from the delayed video signal supplied thereto to the processed video signal at an edit-in point and said edit switching means switches from said processed video signal to said delayed video signal at an edit-out point.