re: Anybody Listening on the American Soldier tour.
Setlist.fm is often wrong, however, Scotty is right. It was played a handful of times. I don't think it was 156 times total like setlist.fm says, but it was played.
I saw the American Soldier tour, and I had to leave early (I had a meeting at 8 a.m. the next day, and the show was almost two hours from where I lived). I discovered later that they played Anybody Listening that night, which really bummed me out.
But I wouldn't trust setlist.fm for accuracy. Anybody Listening was played in 1992 as I mentioned, a handful of times, and then sporadically in 2003, 2004, and again in 2008-2009. But not equaling 156. There's no way. And as for the current lineup and a 2016 performance, I wouldn't know. So perhaps that's right.
Metallica's recent box sets should be the minimum standard, to which other bands look for guidance.
DVD's would be adequate, but considering how much of their stuff was shot on film (music videos, concerts (LIVEcrime), Building Empires etc.), a Blu-ray would be preferrable. Even stuff shot on video tape back in the day, can look quite nice if it's allowed to breathe on a Blu-ray, compared to an old DVD compression.
All things considered, it's nice to see that they're all able to work together in some form
Unfortunately, while I agree Metallica's sets should be the minimum standard, most bands don't have the budget to do what they are doing. The hugely successful ones do, but Queensryche, not so much. If I understand the technology correctly, there's quite a bit of work transferring film and making it into Blu-ray. You might know better than me, since you do all the video upgrading, but something about how if it was shot in 4:3, it can be resequenced to widescreen, but you lose some stuff if you do. So it'd be a straight conversion to 4:3, which some people dislike given newer standards. I'm thinking back to X-Files, where it was discussed they had some issues with that.
Agreed though - I'd love to have it all on Blu-ray at a minimum, but I am just not sure the budget will be there.
And yes, it is nice that they are working together on the project.