MAYAH colors your world: New FLASHMANs at AES in Barcelona

Munich / Barcelona, 28th of May 2005: After three years of a successful introduction and lots of applications and references for FLASHMAN®, the Digital Audio Recorder for Broadcast Professionals, MAYAH will be introducing four new FLASHMAN members: in Daytona Yellow, Brooklands Green, Monza Red and LeMans Blue.

Uwe Flatter, Sales Manager Professional Audio, says “It doesn’t get much faster than this: plug the CompactFlash card into the notebook and transfer the audio to the studio in broadcast format or even go straight on air". The new FLASHMAN support Layer 3 and linear audio. The large backlit display ensures high readability even in situations with little or no available light and provides all relevant information at a glance – including recording levels, counter, recording status, recording format, track number, sample rates, battery life indicator and much more.

For a promotional period until September 30 th , 2005, the yellow, red, blue and green FLASHMAN will go for EUR 777,-- as the recommended net price (plus VAT, postage, packing, etc.). During AES in Barcelona, FLASHMAN will be demonstrated regularly at the stand 1905.

About MAYAH Communications

MAYAH Communications, a technology leader in audio transmission and inventor of FlashCast®, the automatic codec recognition, which allows compatibility to nearly all standard and proprietary audio codecs in the market, is developing innovative hardware and software products for audio and audio video transmission in the broadcasting market and beyond: Contribution, Distribution, Emission and Reporting, InHouseStreaming, WebRadio, ISDN, other broadcast networking applications and Digital Handheld Recording.

MAYAH started its operations at the end of 1997 and is a privately held company with its headquarter in Hallbergmoos near Munich, an R&D department in Flensburg and a worldwide distribution network. Its personnel is dominated by R&D, marketing and sales, highly experienced people from the industry and related businesses.

With major milestones in 2000 with the first IP/ISDN audio codec CENTAURI ® and 2002 with the popular handheld recorder FLASHMAN ®, MAYAH has been introducing its first full PAL/NTSC resolution MPEG-4 audio video codec IO [io] 8000 in 2003. In 2005 MAYAH is introducing CENTAURI II, the multichannel audio gatewy codec with a unique combination of functionalities for broadcasters and other users. MAYAH stands in close relationship with and is licensing technology from FhG-IIS, Coding Technologies, Thomson, IRT, Via, AudioMpeg, France Telekom, APT and others. Its customers are in radio and TV broadcasting as well as telecommunications, studios and ISPs.

For more information please e-mail to: info@mayah.com