Video player/recorder for recording on a blank disk and method for home recording.

摘要

A blank disc (12) for a home video player/recorder has two or more reference tracks (41, 42) that are formed with the precision of a factory record and under the controlled environmental conditions of disc replication in a factory. When the disc is loaded into the player/recorder for a write operation, the player/recorder reads the reference tracks and simultaneously samples the track error signal and stores the error signal values in the data store of a processor. During the actual write operation, the processor operates on the stored values to generate a control signal to position the write head to define a track that follows the shape of the two adjacent reference tracks in proportion to the spacing of the track (40) between the reference tracks. Thus the player/recorder follows the precision factory reference tracks in spite of track distortion that usually occurs in a home redorder and in a home recording environment, and the track distortion of the home recorded disc is limited to about the track distortion of a factory recording.