Roku / movies_and_tv / RAW MULTIMEDIA
REVIEW
Raw Multimedia is a Roku channel that won't tell you what it plays.
A free movies-and-TV channel from RAW MULTIMEDIA LLC, published mid-2025, with no store description and a name generic enough to belong to anyone. Installation is a leap of faith.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 11, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
Raw Multimedia
RAW MULTIMEDIA LLC
OUR SCORE
6.2
ROKU
★ 5.0
PRICE
Free
A Roku Channel Store listing has four jobs: tell the viewer what the channel plays, who it’s for, what it costs, and why they should install it instead of one of the thousand other channels filed under the same genre. Raw Multimedia answers one of those four questions. The price is zero. Everything else is left for the viewer to find out by installing it on their living-room TV and watching whatever loads.
We don’t usually review channels with empty store descriptions, because there’s nothing to review except the listing itself. The reason this one earns a write-up is that it represents an entire shape of Roku channel — small LLC, generic name, no marketing, free, recent — that is increasingly common on the platform and that viewers should know how to read at a glance. The honest answer is that you can’t read it at a glance. You have to install it.
That isn’t a fatal flaw. It is, however, the single largest thing standing between this channel and a recommendation.
An empty store listing is itself a review. Raw Multimedia hasn't written a sentence about what it does, and that's the most informative thing about it.
FEATURES
Raw Multimedia is a free Roku channel filed under movies_and_tv, published by RAW MULTIMEDIA LLC on 25 June 2025 and last updated in March 2026. There are no in-app purchases and no advertising flag in the Channel Store metadata, which on Roku usually means a straight ad-funded VOD storefront — the platform doesn't have a separate "ad-supported" toggle the way Apple does.
Three phone-shaped screenshots accompany the listing. There is no long description, no short description, no category beyond the genre bucket, and no developer site link surfaced in the snapshot we hold. The Channel Store page is, in effect, a name and an icon.
Roku's installation model means none of this stops a user installing it — the channel adds to the home screen in a single click and only reveals its actual catalogue, layout, and content source once it boots on the TV.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
Free with no in-app purchases and no ad-supported flag is the least-friction install profile a Roku channel can ship. There's nothing to subscribe to, nothing to sign in to from the store page, and no risk of a charge before you've seen the interface. For a niche channel that's the right pricing call.
The channel has stayed in active development — the March 2026 update timestamp says someone is still maintaining it nine months after launch, which is more than can be said for the long tail of abandoned Roku channels filed under the same genre.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
The store listing is the problem. A blank description on a movies-and-TV channel asks the viewer to install a stranger's app on their TV with zero information about what's inside — is it public-domain westerns, indie shorts, a specific cultural niche, a single network's archive, a vanity reel? Three screenshots without context cannot answer that. Roku's Channel Store gives developers a long-form description field for a reason; leaving it empty in 2026 reads as either unfinished or careless.
The rating value of 5 in the metadata is structurally meaningless on Roku — the platform does not return real review counts to crawlers, and a perfect five with no visible review volume is the default state for any channel nobody has rated yet. Treat it as noise, not endorsement. The generic name compounds the problem: search for "Raw" on the Roku remote and a viewer cannot tell this channel apart from any other.
CONCLUSION
Raw Multimedia is free, recently updated, and shipped by an LLC that filed the paperwork to publish it — which is enough to install it on a curious Saturday afternoon and not enough for a review site to recommend. If the developers add a description and a clearer name, the same product would earn a higher score on the same code. Right now the channel is rated on what it tells the world, not on what it might actually play.