My advice was aimed at people living in 1980 who had a spare TV they could use for the computer. I suppose your advice is good for people living in 1990 who don’t have a computer monitor yet.
Well timed. The appnote [1] I referred to, is a collection video circuits published in January 1994. Linear's effort to republish its old application notes at the beginning of the 21st century is respectable, lots of valuable documentation and tutorials from the 80s are still available in high-quality digital formats.
