PURPOSE: To obtain a miniaturized, lightweight camera-combined VTR by providing a light source modulated by a signal, magnetic recording medium, means for forming parallel slanting recording tracks by allowing irradiation light from the light source to scan on the magnetic recording medium, and means for allowing the irradiation scan at a specific speed.

CONSTITUTION: A magnetic tape 1 runs between reels 6 and 7 and laser light from an infrared-ray laser oscillator 5 is reflected by a reflecting mirror 4 to form tracks 2 on the film surface of the magnetic tape 1 through the rotation or oscillation of the reflecting mirror 4. When, however, this rotation or oscillation is carried out at a specific speed, the scanning speed of the tracks 2 is not constant, so a reproduced picture through the reproduction of a normal VTR distorts vertically. This nonlinearity is compensated by rotating curved-surface mirrors 30, 31, and 32 around a shaft at a specific speed. The mirror 30 allows a scan on the track center part 37 of the tape 1 at a solid-line position and then rotates clockwise to reach a position of 30, and the shaft 33 should rotate excessively to position it at the track end 38 because the mirror is curved, thereby compensating the characteristics.