Last call at CES

It's time for tech writers to sum up the annual craziness at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Tech Trader's Eric Savitz offers some observations while waiting at the airport for his departing flight - starting with the widely shared view that not much happened. Well, nothing of real significance. Some other thoughts:

--One constant theme: finding ways to move Internet content onto big screen televisions. But this is a delicate exercise: there were a host of people offering interim steps, closed-garden subsets of content for TV. But ultimately, everyone is going to have to come to grips with the idea that consumers are going to want all of the content on the Web available easily on their television, whether the cable and satellite companies like it or not.

--Sad sight: the large but nearly empty HD-DVD booth.

--Lots of discussion about moving high-def content around the house. Actually, two areas of wireless transport got the spotlight. Wireless HDMI - to get rid of wires from peripherals to your TV - and 802.11n, for moving content wirelessly around the house.

--Number of times today that I actually briefly dozed off during an interview with a group of corporate executives: 1. The name of that company: That is going to stay in Vegas, baby.

--Best celebrity appearance: Well, I didn’t see Tony Bennett and Jerry Seinfeld at the Sony booth, and I missed Billy Bob Thornton’s singing gig, and I passed on Mary J. Blige at the Monster Cable awards. So the prize has to go to Slash, who showed up at the end of the Bill Gates keynote.