1/2-inch cassette VTR for baseband HDTV signal recording

Technical details are reported for a 1/2-inch cassette videotape recorder (VTR) developed for recording the baseband high-definition TV (HDTV) signal. A recording time of 63 min was achieved by using metal-particle tape and laminated amorphous video heads. The frequency bandwidths used for luminance and chrominance signals were 20 and 7 MHz, respectively. A novel two-channel, three-segment recording method was developed for the purpose. Four-channel digital audio recording with a sampling frequency of 48 kHz and 16-b linear quantization was used. The digital audio signal was recorded on the overlapped area succeeding to the video track by using the same heads used for video recording. >