RECORDING DEVICE AND REPRODUCING DEVICE

摘要

A recording device and a reproducing device by which the storage space of tapes can be small by changing the image compression ratio maintaining the image quality of a material required by the user. Since the ratio of compression of an image performed by a (1:N) image data compressing encoder (3) and a (1:N) picture data compressing decoder (6) is changed in accordance with the image quality set by means of a setter (5) by the user. The tape movement speed of an archive VTR 4 is changed in accordance with the image compressing ratio. The amount of tape moved is arbitrary set in accordance with the image quality. Therefore the storage space of tapes can be arbitrarily selected in accordance with the picture quality.