Abstract: In a video tape recorder in which a video signal is recorded on a magnetic tape as a plurality of skewed tracks by a rotary magnetic head which is rotated in synchronism with a frame frequency signal contained in the video signal and in which a recorded video signal is reproduced by the rotary magnetic head from a magnetic tape on which a control signal representing the frame frequency has also been recorded, there is provided a detecting device which detects the time when the rotary magnetic head rotates in contact with the magnetic tape to a point beyond that corresponding to where the frame frequency signal in the video signal is recorded. The output signal from the detecting device is applied to a variable delay circuit.