I bought a couple of old DCC decks on eBay and use those to record our practices. I have everything miked and going into a 2-track mix. The only trouble with that is you can't buy DCC tapes anymore, and I have to just reuse the ones that came with the first deck I bought over and over until they become useless. Hopefully those things have a long life.
DCC is a weird format--came out around the same time as MiniDisc and was basically a digital version of the good ol' cassette tape. MiniDisc won out, obviously, but initially the sound quality of DCC was quite a bit better. Of course, it's not a random-access medium, so you still have to deal with fast-forwarding and rewinding. I basically bought them because I was curious about the format and the decks are fairly cheap on eBay (being more or less useless these days and all). I justified my frivolous purchase by using them to record practices.
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