Disclosed is a reproducing apparatus which plays a recording medium on which a color video signal is recorded as three channel signals acquired by expanding time axes of one luminance signal and two color difference signals representing the color video signal and combining the expanded luminance signal and the expanded color difference signals in a predetermined format while subjecting the color difference signals to a line-sequential process, and which can clear disturbance on a reproduced image in a short period of time when the mode changes to a normal playback mode from a special playback mode. After the reproduced channel signal is written in a memory, write and read timings at the reading time are monitored while performing reverse conversion to the signal conversion done at the time of producing the channel signal, thereby keeping the phase difference between write and read timing signals constant.

Tozaki Akihiro

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Apparatus for reproducing high definition color video signal.