Digital recording/playback apparatus with improved error correction capability and method therefor

摘要

A digital recording/playback apparatus with improved error correction capability and a method thereof are provided. In the apparatus and method thereof, regardless of trick play data and stuffing data, normal play data is outer-error-corrected. To enhance the error correction capability of the normal play data, during a recording mode, predetermined pattern data are arranged in the stuffing data region and trick play data region and an outer parity is added to the normal play data to then be outer-error-correction coded. During a playback mode, the predetermined pattern data used during error-correction coding is arranged in the stuffing data region and trick play data region and inner-error-correction decoded normal play data is outer-error-correction decoded using the outer parity.