Abstract: In a system (1) for recording and/or reproducing information signals on/from at least one record carrier (13), which system comprises an apparatus (2) and at least one cassette (3) for use in the apparatus (2), each cassette (3) comprises at least one indicator which by means of one of its parameters indicates at least one characteristic value of an element of the cassette (3), and the apparatus (2) comprises a detection device (97, 101, 78) for the detection of this indicator parameter. At least one electrical impedance (R5, R6) is arranged in a cassette (3) as an indicator of a cassette (3), the impedance value of this impedance defining the parameter for the indication of a characteristic value, and the detection device (97, 101, 78) being adapted to directly or indirectly detect the parameter defined by the impedance value of the at least one impedance (R5, R6).

Abstract: In a reproducing apparatus for a color television signal recorded on a record carrier, of which at least the chrominance signal which contains the color synchronizing signals is recorded with periodically changed polarity in the individual line period sectors in at least one of two adjacent tracks, the polarity of the reproduced signal in the individual line period sectors is switched so by means of a polarity switching device that the polarity change effected during recording is cancelled, which enables cross-talk signals from an adjacent track to be suppressed. In order to ensure that the change in polarity during reproduction is always in synchronism with the change in polarity during recording, there is provided an identification circuit for the phase relationship between two such color synchronizing signals, which should be in phase in conformity with the television standard when the polarity change during reproduction exactly cancels the polarity change effected during recording.