As we recently explored, Internet video currently isn't much of a threat to the multi-billion-dollar traditional TV broadcast industry -- though it's only a matter of time before faster broadband and easy, cheap devices and services more seriously challenge old-school TV. Most "cable guys" are infinitely confident in their ability to hold off the Internet video challenge, and Comcast CEO Brian Roberts is no exception. Speaking at The Cable Show this week, Roberts downplayed the threat of people cutting the TV cord, and then immediately seemed to admit it was still a threat:Of course it's not so much a matter of cynicism as it is one of logic. Cable carriers (Comcast in particular) continue to have the lowest consumer satisfaction rates across any industry. They continue to impose bi-annual rate hikes on their customers. Should someone come along with a cheap, easy service that makes it simple enough for regular users to bypass cable operators -- it seems very hard to believe there won't be a number of people ready to make that migration -- eventually.

Meanwhile, Comcast's attempt to keep these supposedly non-existent cord cutters from cord cutting is called TV Everywhere -- which as we've discussed provides existing TV customers only with a limited selection of paywalled TV content. Early reactions were somewhat mixed, but Roberts says there should be a new version of the platform arriving sometime in the next 90 days.