Disc-shaped recording media and recording/reproducing apparatus therefor.

摘要

A disc-shaped recording medium (1) has a diameter of not more the 80 mm and a recording track pitch of approximately 1.6 mu m. In excess of 130 Mbytes of information is recorded in a data compressed state on the medium (1), which is rotationally driven at a constant linear velocity for recording and optically reproducing the information. A recording/reproducing apparatus for the medium (1) includes a buffer memory (23) between a data compressing circuit (23) for compressing input digital data and a recording encoding circuit (26, 27) for processing the compressed data by modulation suitable for recording, and a buffer memory (25) between a playback decoding circuit (33, 26) and a data expansion circuit (23) for expanding the compressed data to the original state. The capacity of the buffer memories (25) is selected such that recording and reproduction may continue satisfactorily even if there is a track jump during recording or reproduction. <IMAGE>