| abstract |
In a magnetic recording and reproducing device having two rotary magnetic heads for recording and reproducing signals, such as video signals, in skew tracks traced across a magnetic tape by the heads, a switching circuit is provided which, during recording, alternately supplies the video signals to the heads in synchronism with the vertical synchronizing pulses included in the video signals. The video signals thus recorded in successive tracks have overlapping portions which either correspond to a very short recording period of the order of one horizontal period of the video signal and are contained in the vertical blanking period of the signal, or one of such overlapping portions is recorded at a substantially lower level than the other. In reproducing the video signals thus recorded, the outputs of the heads are merely combined. |