How much loss in capturing from tape?

Looks like the days of tape are numbered.  If they haven't already, everyone will be using tapeless formats before too long.  I have a large library of HD (miniDV format) tape.  When clients want raw footage, I copy tape-to-tape using two camcorders and send a copy of the raw footage.  That will soon be impossible, because no one will be able to play the tapes. What's left is to use CS4 to capture the tape footage directly to a hard drive or memory stick and send that. I have no idea how much loss of data there is doing that, and hope someone might have some numbers to share.
Thanks.

A Firewire transfer from tape to computer is a copy operation... so there is no loss of quality
Of course, those files are "about" 13Gig per hour for DV (I don't know the size for HDV) so sending a file to someone is going to mean several DVD's to write the files, in 4Gig segments, or copying to a USB hard drive and sending that back and forth

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