A full-length Hindi movie could be compressed into just 60MB to 100MB.
In an era where 1GB of data was expensive, 3GP made downloading feasible.
If you have an old archive of Hindi movies in 3GP format, you can still access them.
As 4G (and now 5G) took over India, the need for extreme compression vanished. Several factors led to the decline of the 3GP format:
The era was the bridge that brought Bollywood from the cinema hall and the living room TV directly into the pockets of millions. It democratized entertainment in India, proving that the craving for cinema would always find a way, regardless of bandwidth or hardware limitations.
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