Video cassette recorder which stores signal during tape replacement and records stored signal with next signal in picture-in-picture format

摘要

A video cassette recorder with a television signal storing function can display simultaneously a current television broadcasting signal as well as the television program content during the tape replacing time in picture-in-picture fashion, by adopting a solid state memory device for storing the television program content during the tape replacing time, without discontinuity of the television program content due to replacing the new tape.