There are only 3 or 4 panel makers:
AOC, LG-Philips, Samsung and maybe a couple of others.
Everyone else wraps their cases around those panels (including iiyama - they may have made great CRTs but the LCDs are fairly run-of-the-mill) - and I've opened samsung + philips monitors to find AOC panels inside too.
For monitors with external PSUs, it's fairly easy to make up a molex adaptor cable to feed them 12V from the computer.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
