That's what I was thinking, amazon's Fire 7 tablets are decent and only gets better when you root them, add tasker and for less then $55.00 you can make any remote you want. Just need to find the time to build the remote

Yes, that is cheap - I prefer iRule instead of tasker, because it let you design a remote with any graphics and it is easy to build macros etc. , but it is not cheap (50$ US).