The Dutch PC-Active magazine has done an extensive CD-R quality test. For the test the magazine has taken a look at the readability of discs, thirty different CD-R brands, that were recorded twenty months ago. The results were quite shocking as a lot of the discs simply couldn’t be read anymore. —CD-Recordable discs unreadable in less than two years (CD Freaks)
The site has posted a rough translation of the Dutch text.