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If you have a large number of DVDs, digitising them makes them easier to browse and decouples you from the physical medium (so you don't have to bring them with you everywhere in order to watch them).
As for the conversion, maybe you're confusing this with ripping vinyl or tape. Ripping a CD or a DVD is easy and reproducible and gives you a 1:1 digital copy of it.
You're missing his point, he's unhappy with the word choice. Ripping a DVD is not digitizing it. Digitizing means specifically turning an analog signal digital.
Ah, my bad - now that I read it again, you're right. In the same line of thought though "digitising" is sometimes wrongly used in the place of ripping.
Maybe because I'm not a native english speaker, but to me 'digitising' means converting an analog medium to a digital one. Like with vinyl, VHS, etc. And 'ripping' is about an extraction process. Like overcoming a protection or more difficult to access mediums like Audio CDs, which don't have a real filesystem, and into a easily accessible single file on a harddrive.
DVDs are already digital, and if they don't have a copy protection, which you have to rip through, you can just copy the files to a hardrive and then, if you want reencode them into one more portable file...