Abstract: A video cassette recorder has a video screen zooming function, capable of zooming an optional region of one of plural still pictures sequentially displayed on a screen, as one picture. A digital signal processing unit converts composite video signals into digital video signals and a first memory unit stores the digital video signals by frames. A zoom signal processing unit zooms only digital video signals corresponding to a predetermined zoom region from the digital video signals so as to reconfigure them as digital video signals corresponding to one frame. A second memory unit stores the zoomed digital video signals by frames. A first switch selects the digital video signals from the first memory unit in a stop mode or digital video signals from the second memory unit in a zoom mode.