As you'd expect, there's plenty of cable industry rhetoric emerging from the industry's National Show this week in Atlanta. The primary goal of course is to ease investors' minds about the threat posed by telco next-gen services like AT&T's Project Lightspeed (U-Verse), and Verizon's Fios. Some interesting tidbits pulled from show-coverage:

•Broadcasting Cable reports that Comcast delivered 1.5 billion on-demand streams in 2005, and 50% of Time Warner’s digital subscribers use VOD an average of 30 times a month.•Execs are finding comfort in a recent study stating cable companies will have 8% of residential phone customers by the end of this year, and 22% by the end of 2009 - while Telephone companies will have less than 1% of TV subscribers by the end of 2006 and only 6% by the end of 2009.•The Street offers up stats from Time Warner Cable's CFO John Martin: 7% of customers bundle three services, 40% bundle two, and a whopping 60% [sic] still only subscribe to one service.•Reuters notes that cable's pretense that IPTV isn't a threat isn't working on investors, they're uneasy about a brutal video-price war on the horizon.•Multi-Channel has Motorola's chairman Ed Zander telling cable outfits to look overseas for inspiration: "In Korea, for $9.95 [per month], you can get all the TV you want," he says.•TMCNet has CSPAN's CEO saying VOD is being boosted by the low quality of Hollywood films. "When they're good again, there won't be box office problems. But they're just terrible," he says.