Such a device exists

[Bryan]

Originally Posted by lastlight

If you have an xbox 360 simply install vuze on your computer. It's a torrent download application but it allows you to stream movie files to your xbox. We watch all of our downloaded content this way and it will cost you nothing.

Could do that, but then don't I have to use the computer to pause, stop fwd etc as opposed to something dedicated like the patriot that has a remote.