Abstract: An apparatus efficiently performs symbol timing recovery of sampled data included in a vestigial sideband (VSB) signal. Each of the sampled data is first filtered to output a positive and a negative band edge filtered components thereof. Thereafter, the negative band edge filtered component is processed to obtain a conjugate complex component; and the positive band edge filtered component is multiplied by the conjugate complex component to provide a multiplied component as symbol timing information. Finally, each of the sampled data is corrected based on the symbol timing information to generate interpolated data thereon as the timing recovered data.