HEADING 85.21 - VIDEO RECORDING OR REPRODUCING APPARATUS WHETHER OR NOT INCORPORATING A VIDEO TUNER.

11 COMMODITIES

8521.10 - Magnetic tape-type

8521.90 - Other

(A) RECORDING AND COMBINED RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS

In television image and sound recording apparatus electric impulses (signals) which correspond to the images and the sound are recorded on media generally consisting of magnetic tape. Generally the sound accompanying the image is recorded simultaneously on the same media on one or several different tracks from that carrying the video recording. The signals can be obtained by connecting the recorder either to a television camera or to a television receiver.When used for reproduction the apparatus convert the recording (e.g. the magnetic patterns on the tape) into video signals. These signals are passed on either to a transmitting station or to a television receiver.

(B) REPRODUCING APPARATUS

These apparatus are designed only to reproduce images and sound directly on a television receiver. The media to be used in these instruments are prerecorded mechanically magnetically or optically on special recording equipment. The following are examples of such apparatus :

(1)Apparatus using videodiscs in which the image and sound data are stored on the disc by various methods and picked up by a laser optical reading system capacitive sensor pressure sensor or magnetic head.

(2) Apparatus that decodes and converts into a video signal image data recorded on a light sensitive film (the sound being recorded by a magnetic process on the same film).

PARTS AND ACCESSORIES

Subject to the general provisions regarding the classification of parts (see the General Explanatory Note to Section XVI) parts and accessories of the apparatus of this heading are classified in heading 85.22.

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The heading excludes :

(a)The recording media of heading 85.23 or 85.24 whether or not presented together with the apparatus for which they are intended.

(b)Reception apparatus for television (whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus) and video monitors and video projectors (heading 85.28).

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