If you're wanting an official statement, not that I'm aware, no.
As far as the available information, it's speculation at the moment, but based on sound logic:
- State of the world economy, and willingness of businesses to cut costs (i.e. TY and China packing), or for manufacturing plants to simple close (i.e, Daxon).
- History of this happening to other manufacturers (TDK, Maxell, etc).
- Willingness of Verbatim to use CMC discs in 2x days, and now again in the 16x era.
- Confirmation that both the Life Series and Value Series is CMC. (I believe Value Series is also Ritek.)
- Best Buy and Officemax replentishing Verbatim with Life Series, already confirmed to be CMC by user reports.
I'd rather be safe than sorry -- I want/need good media, and Verbatim is the best. If you want to guarantee yourself some good discs, I highly suggest visiting
and buying some now.
I'd rather guess and be wrong, than disbelieve and be wrong. The first one ensures I get good known-quality Verbatim MCC/MKM blanks discs, the second one does not. You won't really hear "I bought too many good blanks" as opposed to "I missed out on buying good blanks".
Something to think about.
