Abstract: In a still frame playback mode, a video disc player reproduces a carrier signal which is frequency modulated in accordance with a composite video signal representative of successive repetitions of two interlaced image fields constituting a single image frame and comprising a luminance signal component, a chrominance signal component and synchronizing information, including a color burst. An FM demodulator develops a composite video signal, which is characterized by a 180.degree. phase discontinuity in the chrominance signal component between the frame end and the succeeding frame start. A first inverter circuit inverts the phase of the color burst every other image frame piror to the processing of the composite video signal output in time base correction and drop-out compensation circuits.