Abstract: A stand-alone time-shift device can be connected to a TV-set via a SCART connector. The device offers a “pause-button” functionality to the user watching a live broadcast. Special control of the SCART's pin-8 avoids delay in the response or artifacts on the screen when the user is changing channels. This allows adding the time-shift functionality without interfering with the conventional behavior of a TV set.

Abstract: A device for positioning a transducing head (14) over a selected track of a rotatable information disc. The device includes a slider (12) supporting the transducing head, a carrier supporting the slider, a drive for moving the carrier to effect coarse radial positioning of the transducing head with respect to said selected track and a microactuator (18) to effect fine radial positioning (F) of the transducing head with respect to said selected track. The slider is provided with a swinging element carrying the transducing head and the microactuator is arranged to move the swinging element. In order to obtain a compact device with a swinging element of small mass, the swinging element is an internal tongue-shaped portion (12b) of the slider, the transducing head being secured to a free end part (12ba) of said tongue-shaped portion. The tongue-shaped portion extends in a recess (16) of the slider in which recess the tongue-shaped portion is swingable and in which recess the microactuator is provided.