Abstract: An adapter device includes a cover that covers an inserted recording medium, a cover urging portion that urges the cover in a direction of the recording medium and causes the cover to be in press contact with the recording medium, and a connector conversion section that connects a terminal portion of the recording medium to a connector on an apparatus side having a different physical specification.

Abstract: An adapter device includes a cover that covers an inserted recording medium, a cover urging portion that urges the cover in a direction of the recording medium and causes the cover to be in press contact with the recording medium, and a connector conversion section that connects a terminal portion of the recording medium to a connector on an apparatus side having a different physical specification.

Abstract: In a digital VTR to which this invention is applied, recording heads 51a, 51b, reproduction heads 52a, 52b and an erase head 53 are disposed on a rotary drum 50 so that the recording heads 51a, 51b and the erase head 53 do not scan tracks for a time period during which the reproduction heads 52a, 52b are scanning tracking areas 2 and speech areas 3. In the case where, e.g., speech signal of channel #1 is insert-recorded, an approach is employed to separate, at a reproduction signal processing circuit 67, speech signal of channel #2 of interleaved speech signals reproduced by the reproduction heads 52a, 52b to deliver it to a recording signal processing circuit 46 through a selector switch 45b. Further, the speech signal of the channel #2 and new speech signal of the channel #1 delivered through a terminal 42a are interleaved by the recording signal processing circuit 46 to record such interleaved signals into the speech areas 3 by the recording heads 51a, 51b.