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.

[lastlight]

Originally Posted by Bryan

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.

No you control it with your xbox controller. Click on videos and you can browse all the titles you have in your Vuze library. It's not terribly fun scrolling through the list but we prune the library as we watch things. There are certainly more elegant solutions but it works for us. Watch a season of whatever show, replace with next season. So we're only scrolling through a short list.

If you're looking to organize a big collection of movies etc this is not for you. Using window media center might be I'm not sure.

[Bryan]

Originally Posted by lastlight

No you control it with your xbox controller. Click on videos and you can browse all the titles you have in your Vuze library. It's not terribly fun scrolling through the list but we prune the library as we watch things. There are certainly more elegant solutions but it works for us. Watch a season of whatever show, replace with next season. So we're only scrolling through a short list.

If you're looking to organize a big collection of movies etc this is not for you. Using window media center might be I'm not sure.

Well, pulled the Xbox out of the closet and spent almost all of Sunday afternoon getting it to work on my Win 7 computer. Took awhile but seems to work ok. Having some issues with getting sufficient bandwidth, but that is another story.

Some limitations I see, using the xbox remote is painful for navigating the media center. Media center and xbox do NOT support *.srt subtitles. Workaround is to embed the subtitles into the AVI's using Freemake Video converter.

Not too bad, still pondering whether to purchase a Patriot, perhaps not and invest in a Logitech harmony remote instead.