Rumor of a DVD box set

I was reading reviews on a box set that's of the Lord of the Rings Extended Editions. It contains all the extended editions of all the movies...I haven't bought it yet. One of the reviews said that this box set of DVDs will not work on Macs...would anyone know if this is true?
P.S. If anyone has it look at the box and tell me what it says...if it says it doesn't work on Macs...
It's actaully called "The Lord of the Rings - The Motion Picture Trilogy (Special Extended DVD Edition)"

I'm not much more help because I don't have the boxed set. But here is a news release from Sonic that gives a clue:
http://www.sonic.com/about/press/news/2004/december/dvdkey.aspx
I believe the boxed set also will have the Interactual-enablied DVD-ROM content accessible only by PCs (actually the content is on the Internet, not the DVD but the DVD is required to access it). The reason most of their content doesn't work with Macs (even if you download the Mac version of Interactual Player) is explained here:
http://player.interactual.com/help/support/articles/0144.asp
This has no effect on playing the movies themselves on Macs.

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