Video disc player with multiple signal recovery transducers

DETAILED DESCRIPTION What is claimed is: 1.
A video disc player of the type for recovering video signal from information bearing tracks disposed on a disc record, said video signal being formatted in fields having vertical, horizontal, and chrominance synchronization signal components, every Nth field having similar in-phase synchronization components and wherein M fields are disposed per 360.
degree.
of the information track, and multiples of every Nth field being radially aligned in adjacent tracks, said player comprising: a base for rotatably supporting said disc record; at least two signal recovery systems having respective output terminals and having signal transducers disposed at N/M times 360.
degree.
or a multiple thereof relative to each other to recover signal from the disc record; means responsive to the synchronization components of the recovered signals at said output terminals for adjusting the angular position of at least one of the signal transducers relative to at least one other of the signal transducers in a direction to reduce signal phase differential between the synchronization components of signal recovered by said at least one and said at least one other signal transducer; means for radially translating said signal transducers independently of each other to preselected video signal fields; and means for selectively applying signal from said respective output terminals to a display means.
2.
The video disc player set forth in claim 1 wherein the means for radially translating said signal transducers comprises: respective carriage means for supporting each signal transducer, each carriage means including means for permitting the respective signal transducer to engage said disc record; respective motive means responsive to respective carriage control signals for translating the respective carriage means and thereby the respective signal transducers radially with respect to the disc axis of rotation; respective decoders for extracting field identifying numbers from the respective recovered signals; and computing means responsive to the recovered and decoded identifying numbers and a sequence of user determined transducer positions for generating carriage control signals to position the appropriate signal transducer at the appropriate information track prior to completion of a current displayed signal segment