2011 2.3 GHz mac mini audio got delay

I am using a HDMI cable to connect my mini to a philips LCD with build-in speaker. When i play youtube video or using the text to speech function audio will got delay for half or few sec before u can hear the sound coming out from the speaker. I did call apple care and try to find a solution. They told me is my HDMI cable not meet the requirement. They said i have to use 1.3+ HDMI cable to solve the problem. Then i go out and got a 1.3b HDMI cable and the problem insist. I tried to use the headphone jack to output audio to a normal PC speaker, the audio work perfectly fine and no delay. Then i tried to use the headjack to output audio to my Philips LCD and set the output source to use headphone output, but no sound at all. I am hoping to use my Philips LCD speaker to output audio so i dont have to use another speaker on my desk. Hope someone can solve my problem. Lastly sorry for my bad English
so i have 2 problems:
- using HDMI to HDMI cable connect to a LCD with build in speaker, audio got delay.
- using mac mini's headphone jack output audio to my LCD while HDMI cable connected to it cant switch the audio output to use headphone jack output.
btw i am using lion 10.7.2 , thx

I have a MacMini Late 2011 with 2.3 GHz I5 and 4GB RAM and I use it as media center... It's enough to play FullHD movies but it uses 256 on 512 MB of (shared)RAM... I don't think that you can use a mini for hard gaming...
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it seems that there are faulty output jacks in the macbook and the mac mini
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