That's pretty much the reason, yes. A lot of industrial monitors, especially ones used in arcade games and other interactive amusement machines, are RGB. (In fact, I don't recall ever seeing a composite-input monitor in an arcade game, with the possible exception of some of the earlier black-and-white games where the "monitor" was basically a converted B&W TV set with the case removed.) The video on a LaserDisc is composite, so you probably won't get any advantage over using the RGB outputs, unless it just happens to have better decoders and filters than your TV set does.
Just finished trying this. The good news is it's PAL and NTSC, the picture is OK though not quite as good as my CLD D925, and it has no trouble with disks that have analogue-only or digital-only sound. The bad news is that the outputs are a bit basic - composite video, analogue sound, and the weird RGB output I mentioned earlier. No SCART, though that isn't a huge problem, no digital sound, and of course no AC-3. But overall it ought to be fine as a backup player, which I may put in another room where I have a smaller TV, if I can find enough shelf space for it. And in the unlikely event I ever find an arcade game or data application that needs computer control it has the serial port, external sync ports, EFM output, and barcode reader socket
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