Abstract: A circuit arrangement for improving the quality of video signals read out from a storage medium by isolating and processing a radio-frequency component which is added to a delayed video signal. An improvement can be achieved in particular in the signal details without any noise amplification effects and at the same time providing a natural picture. The circuit arrangement includes a synchronizing pulse separation stage for separating the radio-frequency component from the synchronizing pulses, a coring stage for suppressing signal components with signal values lying below a first threshold value and a controllable amplification stage, which influences the instantaneous signal value with a characteristic curve which is dependent on the signal value in a main signal branch and provides an increasing relative boosting of the radio-frequency component for greater signal values in the main signal branch.