Patent ID: 7355937

Claim:
A method of recording an information signal representing at least one information unit on a record carrier having a recording track, said recording track comprising preformed track position information indicative of predefined locations for consecutively recording the information units, said method comprising the steps of: (a) generating, from the information signal, a modulated signal having at least one error correction code block, each error correction code block corresponding to one information unit and comprising successive frames with error correction codes, each frame starting with a synchronizing signal, the first synchronizing signal in each error correction code block being the start of said error correction code block; (b) scanning said recording track and recording the modulated signal at at least one of said predefined locations, while controlling such recording using the track position information for locating predefined nominal positions of the first synchronizing signals of error correction code blocks; (c) adding a preceding information signal to the modulated signal, said preceding information signal containing no synchronizing signals so as to obtain a first predetermined distance between the beginning of the preceding information signal and the first synchronizing signal of the first error correction code block of the modulated signal, the first predetermined distance being smaller than a distance over which error codes in a frame are correctable; and (d) starting the recording at a link position at the first predefined distance before the nominal position of the first synchronizing signal of the first error correction code block of the modulated signal.