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Recently manufactured PAL television receivers can typically decode all of these systems except, in some cases, PAL-M and PAL-N. Many of them can also receive Eastern European and Middle Eastern SECAM, though usually not French SECAM, unless they are made for the French market. Many of them can also accept [[baseband]] NTSC-M, such as from a VCR or game console, though not usually broadcast NTSC.
The PAL colour system (either baseband or with any RF system, with the normal 4.43 MHz subcarrier unlike PAL-M) can also be applied to an NTSC-like 525-line ([[480i]]) picture to form what is often known as "PAL-60" (sometimes "PAL-60/525" or "Psuedo PAL"). This is often used in applications such as playing NTSC video tapes on compatible PAL [[VCR]]s, playing NTSC [[DVD|DVD-Video]], and [[Computer and video games|video games]], as most modern PAL television sets can handle this kind of signal without too many issues — standard NTSC-3.58 support is less common (though more recent sets support it) and often results in a black-and-white picture when viewed on a PAL TV set. However, this issue (the lack of colour, or having to convert the video to PAL-60) is easily solved by using RGB connections through [[SCART]] cables, which are very common in Europe.
When video is transmitted baseband, most of the differences between the "one-letter" systems are no longer significant, other than vertical resolution and frame rate, and in that context, unqualified '''PAL''' invariably means 576 lines at 25 frames per second, interlaced, with PAL colour. In digital video applications, such as DVDs and digital broadcasting, even the colour encoding is no longer significant; in that context, '''PAL''' means only 576 lines at 25 frames per second interlaced, and there is no longer any difference to SÉCAM.
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