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Digital audio tape recording/reproducing apparatus for use with multiple formats

US6172829A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 15, 1998
Grant dateJan 9, 2001
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Expiry dateSep 15, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11B2220/916
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A data recording and reproducing apparatus for recording and reproducing data on azimuth tracks of a magnetic tape in which the data may be audio data or computer data in any of several different computer data formats includes a controller that controls the recording and reproducing signal processing so as to be responsive to the four different kinds of data formats such that main data and subdata may be separated from the audio data and subcodes and error correction codes generated and appended to the data stream as required.

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