Digital video tape recording with metadata on slant tracks

摘要

A tape medium has recorded thereon successive slant tracks, each comprising a number of sectors, in which, across a group of one or more slant tracks:
```at least one independently writeable sector stores primarily video material;
```at least one independently writeable sector stores primarily audio material; and at least one independently writeable sector stores metadata associated with the audio and/or video material, the metadata including at least a material identifier and other data relating to the material.