Disclaimer: I am in no way a hardware geek. All opinions expressed here are the result of a little knowledge and even less intelligence.

I am still waiting for my Rio Receiver to be delivered (to Saudi Arabia). The only reason I waited so long to buy one is everything I read complained about how unreadable the display was. Originally I intended to buy a Slimdevices MP3 player, but I do not have CAT 5 cable running through my house and will have to rely on the HPNA interface of the Rio Receiver.

Is it not possible to replace the LCD with a similar sized VFD display so that it could be read at a distance? I see that Noritake sells a VFD of the same pixel dimensions (128x64). I have also found this site which claims to sell drop in replacment VFDs which require no reprogramming.

http://www.futaba.com/display.modules/index.html

I know that this is somehow a stupid question, can a hardware geek explain to this network geek why?