the subscriptions have been postponed to a later date - on one hand the ORCHESTRA instrument section downloads have been made available before (sections from the Special Edition and Special Edition PLUS) and on the other hand you will see single instrument downloads in a next step (AFAIK the amount of content for such an instrument will be somewhere between the special edition and the big collections)
also as reply to the opening post: the subsrciptions contain the same samples as the special edition does, so if you already have the DVD product there would have been nothing new for you.
in case you'd like to expand your special edition i'd recommend to purchase the Special Edition PLUS, either as DVD or as download in sections from the ORCHESTRA products.
christian