Will I lose a lot of quality ripping a dvd

This might have been asked but I searched and couldn't find a solid answer. If I rip a standard dvd I own in Handbrake with the Apple tv preset, will it look the same when I play it through ATV as if I was actually playing the real dvd in a dvd player or will I lose some quality? I want to get ATV to start putting allll my 300 movies on drives and accessing them through ATV but I don't want to lose any quality, I have a 52" lcd 1080p tv and I am pretty picky over the quality so this is a hit or miss for me with the atv. Thanks for any input or advice

Not necessairly true. The Fair Use law agrees with you. The DMCA law says you can't circumvent digital copy protection under any circumatances, which is what a ripped commercial DVD does. So which law wins? I don't think it's been tested in court yet head to head. But it's generally agreed that for the moment, you are not legally allowed to make a copy of a purchased copy protected DVD. The logic is that you don't own it as you have purchased the right to view it under their terms, not yours.
I don't agree with this at all, but this is where it appears to currently stand in the USA.

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http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en
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