Minute electromagnet used to record audio or video signals on the tape. Several of these are mounted around a rotating drum inside a camcorder or VCR.

This is the rotary disc which contains the video head tips. See also the heads page.

The small signal-to-tape transfer device responsible for recording the video signal in a VTR. Video heads are mounted on a head wheel that rotates at a high rate of speed in relation to the videotape.

Is an internal part of a VCR which rotates very rapidly and writes the video signal on to the video tape during recording while reading the video signal from the tape during playback.