The Plextor PX-320SA combo Blu-ray reader and DVD writer drive is one of the quietist drives available. This drive would be a worthy addition to a home theatre PC.  The drive is capable of writing to almost any brand or type of quality CD-R or DVD +/- R media available.

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The drive comes bundled with PlexUtilities a suite of programs that will show you all the features and capabilities of the drive. PlexUtilities also reveals extensive information about the disc in the drive.  You can also check the quality of a written or pressed disc. The program will also tell you if there is an update to the drive or software available.
 
Also included is PlexERASE This software gives the user the opportunity to remove confidential content permanently from the disc. Data cannot be restored after it has been treated with PlexERASE, as the original data is overwritten with random content.  Users now can be certain their sensitive and personal data cannot be recaptured by others.

 CyberLink’s BD Solution (which consists of PowerDVD 8, PowerProducer 5, Power2GO 6, InstantBurn 5, PowerBackup 2, PhotoNow and PowerDirector).

InstantBurn is a packet-writing solution that lets you operate your optical disc burner as if it was another hard drive or a huge floppy disk. You simply drag and drop files onto your optical disc drive listed in the My Computer folder. It is also very easy to cut, copy, and paste or rename files and folders as you normally would on your hard drive.

CyberLink Power2Go offers a complete range of tools for burning different file formats and disc types.

PowerBackup is a full featured backup solution that's capable of fulfilling all your backup needs. It offers three backup methods with data compression support to save space. Full Backup,Incremental Backup, and Differential Backup.

PowerDVD8 is the best movie playback software available to play your Blu-ray and DVD movies on your PC.

PowerProducer gives you a chance to connect your camcorder to your creative side, with a complete range of DVD authoring features for producing discs of your videos.

PowerDirector  video editing software lets you create movie masterpieces.

PhotoNow offers a number of automatic options for fixing images, as well as advanced options for further automatic and manual image editing

If you’re looking for a quality drive to play blu-ray movies and for burning DVD’s and CD’s this drive is probably the best drive available. The PX-B320SA would be a great drive in a home theater PC because it is extremely quiet.

Newegg Price $ 144.99

Plextor America
  48383 Freemont Blvd.
  Suite 120
  Freemont Ca, 94538

Phone 510-824-9695

Website: http://www.plextor.com