I found the old thread where andy posted his Fujitsu PDS-2173. It's amazing. If you've got a higher res version of the PCB shot I'd like to see it. It appears from the picture that the panel cannot be detached from the PCB that contains the buffers, sustain, well everything but the power supply. I would have expected a $9995 display to be more serviceable than that.
I had a Fujitsu PDS-4214 from 99/2000. It had one of the best SD pictures I've ever seen on a flat panel. The individual sub pixels had colored filters that were visible even when it was off (when looking at the bare panel), probably was inefficient, but it seemed to improve the color. At first power on after fixing the power supply about half the pixels were out, but leaving it on full white test pattern for a day or so the gradually came back to life. Sold it, regretted it so I picked up a 2001ish model with with 1024x1024 Alis panel (yet to do anything with that one).
Sets using the LG PDP32F1 were sold here under the GVA, AWA, Maxess and Vivo brands. All in the same case, using the same panel + psu/sustain board set (though there were a couple of revisions) with one of 2 signal boards (with or without DVB tuner). Even the good ones looked grainy/dithered. The not so good ones were prone to either random bright red/green pixels on dark backgrounds or random dark pixels on bright scenes. Some could be tweaked, though often there would be no happy medium. Some revision had no adjustments to tweak. You got something better in the Vizio, it's 1024 x 720 (according to google). These were all 852 x 480.
Had a early 50in Pioneer that was so far gone you could read the burnt in text when it was off. Squealed like a pig while trying to display a green/blue picture on what was left of the panel.
Had a few Hitachi 32", the same panel was used in the 32" Philips. One that frustrated me a bit too much ended up fried on neon sign transformer -
http://youtu.be/HxNd97PIar0. Maybe I should do another junk panel now that I have a better camera.