The fancy Antec Fusion case I used for my own Myth box included a very readable 16x2 VFD as stock gear. I've programmed it to show useful status info, and it's just peachy (stock Myth can also drive it, but my own software does a much nicer job of it).

Unfortunately, Antec has since switched to using unreadable backlit LCDs in the current versions of the Fusion case. Ugh.

Cheers