Abstract: A method and apparatus for carrying digital information in video signals onto the recording format of audio compact disc (CD) systems. Input signals are divided into 8-bit samples and groups of thirty-three samples are treated as a frame. Upon encoding in accordance with the CD format, the frame is made to contain 576 bits which are converted to one hundred ninety-two 3-bit samples. The 3-bit samples are converted to analog levels and those analog levels comprise the video signals. Such a video signal can advantageously be stored in a video disc with exactly one frame of digital data being contained in the video line and stored in one track of the disc. In retrieving the information, the CD format sync code is detected and augmented, and the video line is fed to circuitry that decodes signals having the standard CD format.

Abstract: An electrical resistor comprising an elongated resistor body having a resistance wire winding extending between its ends and terminals at each end contact the resistance winding and each comprise a strip of given width having a first end portion extending about and secured with an end of the body, and a second end portion which extends in a direction transverse to the axis of the body and has a tip for being received through an opening in a printed circuit board. Each strip has an intermediate neck portion of reduced width which is positioned proximate to the resistor body and is twisted so that the second portion extends in a plane which is perpendicular to the axis of the body and in the same direction with and spaced from that of the other terminal allowing adjustment of the distance between their tips. The second end portions each have a shoulder proximate to its tip which is seated on the surface of a circuit board, fixing the position of the resistor and stabilizing its mounting thereon.