Quote Originally Posted by gezegond View Post
There's also the thing that the discs that you write yourself are more likely to produce read errors than factory pressed ones. All the ones that had read errors for me were back up discs...
Even then as long as you store them correctly, buy decent media, burn at slow speeds, and treat them well. Even burned discs should last you quite a while. I have decade old burned PS1 discs that play just fine still.