Recording apparatus for video signal

DETAILED DESCRIPTION It is an object of this invention to solve the prior art problems as mentioned above and provide a recording apparatus for a video signal which can produce a satisfactory amount of a reproduced pilot signal by increasing a substantial playback interval W.
sub.
P, even when the track displacement T.
sub.
X is small.
According to the present invention, in order to solve the above mentioned problems, in the recording apparatus in which the first and second heads H.
sub.
1 and H.
sub.
2 for recording and reproducing are attached through the electrostrictive elements 3 and 4 to the rotary drum 1 with the angular spacing of substantially 180.
degree.
, when recording the video signal, the pilot signal S.
sub.
P1 recorded by the first head H.
sub.
1 over a predetermined interval is reproduced by the second head H.
sub.
2, while the pilot signal S.
sub.
p2 recorded by the second head H.
sub.
2, spaced apart by a predetermined number of recording tracks, is reproduced by the first head H.
sub.
1.
In the invention, a recording mode adjusts a step difference between the heads so it is constant by a DTF operation.
A pilot signal used to match the step difference between first and second heads is alternately recorded by using the pair of heads so that an interval which is the same as the recording interval of the pilot signal can be used as the signal playback interval.
Even when a displacement between the beginnings of the adjacent tracks is as small as 0.
5 H (h is the horizontal period), it is possible to secure a sufficient pilot signal reproducing interval.