There are better options that don't engage compression. Back when, used SlyFox (now Redfox I believe) along with DVD Shrink (used in non compressed mode after Slyfox). What I ended up with is a single large VOB. You may want to see if MakeMKV handles DVDs.
I have always been a bit dubious about the ripping software. Always heard rumors of dodgy things being put on your Mac.
MakeMKV is the one you want. It's not on the app store. You get it from www.makemkv.com
Charlie Monroe software is the correct site. He also has a downloader for YouTube and many other sites as well. Both apps are excellent.
You are right to worry. There are some "bad actor" software out there. MakeMKV and Redfox (Windows) and I believe DVDFab were the big player for awhile. The catch is with blue ray and UHD is that there is a file that puts all the pieces in the proper order. You need to be able to distinguish that file from the rest. DVDs are far easier. My collection of archived movies from DVD days is moderate but some of the actual media didn't fair that well but the archive is a perfect match (sans menus as I do single file archives).
don't debate if your audio set up can deliver Atmos. They did a lovely job putting this one/four on 4k.
This is why I started buying Laserdiscs, when everyone was watching VHS.
CD's and DVD's no. Too low res/bitrate, and many were digitized in the early days of digitization and look terrible. I was happy to give away all my cd's and several large boxes of vinyl a couple decades ago in favor of an iTunes library, and threw in at least a hundred symphonies, ballets, + Zeppelin, Floyd live & studio outtake bootlegs in a massive lightening of my traveling load. I keep a 2012 13" MBP with two 4TB ssd's in it as my iTunes jukebox.
I have the original Star Wars trilogy on VHS, Laserdisc collectors box (in THX) and iTunes....😁
What I find interesting is that all of the above you mention are quite capable of delivering a good experience yet there were no real standards. One could buy/rent a disc or download a movie that was terribly transferred while others would be top notch. Similar can be said with UHD 4K. I'll admit my best home experience was with BR and a plasma TV overall from years ago. I have DVDs, Blue Ray and UHD discs and for the most part, I get Blue Ray or UHD if they happen to be on a sale. If one has a 4k TV/monitor, many blue ray can upscale quite nicely and give a good show.
I like getting games on physical form, I finally gave in and bought a game digital on release and was horrible (the new battlefield). I started building up my digital collection, but backed off and now I buy disc and use the digital code, because if I lose the digital version I can still have what I paid money for.
I have music in various formats. One of the earliest efforts I had was to copy over CDs to digital storage. I did get some iTunes items but they were not always consistent in quality. Later, I started to get my more premium desired music from downloads of lossless files. In my case HDtracks was my go to for most of those items. Granted, they don't have a huge catalogue but nice to go "shopping" on line there and listen to previews of the songs/albums. Much of my music sits as 96/24 and 48/24. With decent playback, near all sounds great. Final - I used big river prime. They made a deal awhile ago offering their HD music library at a reasonable price. Quite amazed at all the CD quality and above music I can find there and either stream or download (use their player to decrypt). Music is well in hand for me.
I'm going to buy games on physical form too, especially because, as far as I know, Games Stop has a generous return policy, so if I don't like a game I can still get some money from it.
For me it'd be either CDs or streaming, because I mostly listen to black metal and I can find every artist on Apple Music, and more, but for CDs I'd have to invest money in a stereo and get some good headphones, that's because I've gone all digital decades ago.
