Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided for recording and reproducing television or other broad band signals with an altered time base effect so as to provide, for example, in the case of television signals, slow motion, faster than normal motion, stop motion or reverse motion. To provide slow motion replay of television signals, successive fields of the signal are recorded separately on a plurality of magnetic mediums, and at predetermined head-to-medium writing speeds, and are played back at substantially the same head-to-medium writing speeds. On playback, each field is repeated a number of times depending upon the time base effect desired. Reverse motion is provided by reversing the order of replay of the fields.

Abstract: A conventional, high resolution camera pickup tube is employed to generate the luminance signal corresponding to the greater bandwidth luminance component of a composite video signal. At least one low resolution, solid state sensor is combined with the tube to generate the red, green and blue color signals corresponding to the lower bandwidth red, green and blue color components of the video signal. A scan adjustment circuit precisely conforms the tube scan raster with the near-perfect geometry of the solid state sensor array. A clocking circuit synchronizes the scan rate of the sensors with that of the pickup tube. Gamma correction, matrixing and encoding are provided via video processor circuitry to generate the broadcast quality, composite video output.