A cover tape for packaging electronic components is formed that causes no contamination of sealing bar due to the outflow of the cushion layer, and attains superior adhesion to the carrier tape. An inhibit signal is generated to inhibit updating of the equalization coefficients, the inhibit signal representing a likelihood of the phase corrected error being accurate, determined according to the phase corrected error, and the equalized signals. Just before the stream is transmitted from the receiver, the setting command of the recording rate is transmitted to the recordingreproducing apparatus when the channel is switched, when the program is switched or every predetermined period, so that the optimum recording rate is correctly set when the recording is started in the recordingreproducing apparatus.