I am planning on adding 2 wall plates once I begin building my riser and stage.
I found a company that can make custom wall plates for whatever I need but I just need to be clear on what it is that I need. For example one plate will have 1 HDMI and 1 DVI to HDMI and possibly 1 digital optical audio or 1 analog audio jacks. The other will have 1 S-Video and 1 RCA A/V jacks (red,yellow,white).

If I have MALE cables plugging into FEMALE jacks on the front of the plates, what do I need to finish the path on the rear of the plate? For example, would I need FEMALE to FEMALE jacks for everything I listed above? Can you even run Digital Optical Audio in a wall plate?

I do a lot of video editing with Final Cut Pro HD and would need the DVI to HDMI set up for my laptop to have my work projected onto the screen. I also wanted to run Optical Audio out of my laptop but wasn't sure if optical can be done in a wall plate or not. I could also use analog audio cables and a splitter and run the audio out of the headphone jack to the speakers if digital optical audio wouldn't work in a wall plate set up I guess.

Chuck,

Looks like you're thread is getting no love (been there). I had the same question. I ended up ordering my plate from Data Pro
http://www.datapro.net/products/custom-wall-plates.html

They will provide couplers (for a charge of course) for your cables that need them. Get a plate mount HDMI cable. It will have the proper plug-ins. Otherwise, you won't be able to screw the cable to the plate. RCA couplers will take care of the RCA issue. You can also get a toslink coupler for your optical cable.

Let me know if you have any questions around this. You can shoot me a PM as well. I JUST went through this last week, so it's fresh in my head :)

Jason

WOW thanks Jason! That site is pretty cool.