Devices and methods that allow for applying a wavefront scan to rectangular transform blocks are described herein. Such devices and methods may allow greater efficiencies for entropy coding by enabling parallel processing of transform coefficients. In some embodiments, a method for coding a digital video sequence having a plurality of pictures includes dividing at least one of the plurality of pictures into blocks, performing a rectangular transform on at least one of said blocks to produce one or more transform coefficients, performing quantization on the one or more transform coefficients, and encoding the one or more transform coefficients, one at a time, along a coding scan order, to generate a compressed bitstream. The coding scan order may include a forward wavefront scan order or a reverse wavefront scan order and the quantization may result in producing quantized transform coefficients.