Part of Dieter Kosslick’s response to taking over directorship of the Berlinale was that he felt that it wasn’t enough to just discover and show films. He said that the Festival owed something to the movies themselves, "the business side and the artistic side - which means that we should make an investment in the future of the cinema, and this is the young filmmakers." This idea translated into the creation of the Talent Campus, which in the last 7 years has developed into one of the most energetic and pro-active initiatives of the Berlinale 

The first patent for synchronous sound was already filed in 1907, but it took the superstar power of Al Jolson starring in the Jazz Singer in 1927 to make the conversion to sound seem like a viable idea. And even then, it took another few years and a few different formats before we worked out the basis for the system we use today. Similarly, Sony was already demonstrating HD projection in Japan in the mid 80's. They’d even created a prototype pre-fab theater where the “movie” would be beamed from a 3/4" U-matic deck programed for automatic “reel” changes from one cassette to another