I'm waiting to see if DSC ends up on Hulu or Prime before I decide to wait for the blu-ray or maybe get Netflix.
Discovery has always been intended as the flagship for All Access; the Netflix deal paid for most of the production costs of the first season, but there's a very specific reason the rights were only sold internationally. CBS desperately wants a piece of that streaming revenue pie, as does every other company like Viacom, Comcast, Fox, Disney, etc., which is why they're all launching their own services and pulling content from services like Netflix and Hulu at a rapid rate. CBS, in particular, has never been a Hulu partner (outside of
just recently, when it bought into Hulu's backend for the live-streaming component; otherwise, it has nothing to do with Hulu, which is as I recall jointly owned by Disney, Comcast and Fox).
Netflix became a direct competitor to studios and distributors several years ago when it began producing its own content, which was also around the same time that it began changing the terms of its streaming contracts--previously, it would sign a deal and say, "We'll pay X amount of money for every time Y movie / show is streamed," and then, when it became the big boy in the market maybe five or six years ago, the company said, "We'll license this show / movie for X money, but your payments are capped at Y dollars." At that point, it stopped being a distribution partner. That's why Netflix's content spend is something like $7 billion, now, despite its streaming library being south of 4,000 titles (for comparison's sake, it was about 13,000 maybe three or four years ago): Studios are giving their leftovers, also-rans, and shows that have gone well past their sell-by date to Netflix, and Netflix is currently riding on the popularity of its originals.
In North America, you will
never see Discovery on Netflix, Hulu or Prime.
